myriads of stars

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• myriad — a somewhat literary word meaning ‘an indefinitely great number’ (from a Greek word meaning ‘ten thousand’), is treated like billion and million in relation to a following noun, i.e. you can say either a myriad stars or myriads of stars. A third… …   Modern English usage

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• myr|i|ad — «MIHR ee uhd», noun, adjective. –n. 1. a very great number: »There are myriads of stars. The grove bloomed with myriads of wild roses (Francis Parkman). 2. ten thousand. –adj. 1. countless; innumerable: »the City s moonlit spires and myriad lamps …   Useful english dictionary

• Milky Way Galaxy — noun the galaxy containing the solar system; consists of millions of stars that can be seen as a diffuse band of light stretching across the night sky • Syn: ↑Milky Way, ↑Milky Way System • Hypernyms: ↑galaxy, ↑extragalactic nebula • Member… …   Useful english dictionary

• Milky Way galaxy — noun Date: 1948 the galaxy of which the sun and the solar system are a part and which contains the myriads of stars that create the light of the Milky Way …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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• Yarikh — Yarikh, in Canaanite mythology, Yarkhibol in Phoenician, also written as Jerah, Jarah, or Jorah (Hebrew spelling ירח), is a god of the moon whose epithets are Illuminator of the Heavens, Illuminator of the Myriads of Stars, and Lord of the Sickle …   Wikipedia

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• cosmos — /koz meuhs, mohs/, n., pl. cosmos, cosmoses for 2, 4. 1. the world or universe regarded as an orderly, harmonious system. 2. a complete, orderly, harmonious system. 3. order; harmony. 4. any composite plant of the genus Cosmos, of tropical… …   Universalium