poetic/literary <诗/文>
1
- a countless or extremely great number无数, 极大数量：
myriads of insects danced around the light above my head.
无数的昆虫在我头上围着灯光飞舞。
2
- (chiefly in classical history) a unit of ten thousand多用于古典历史剧中一万。
1
- countless or extremely great in number无数的, 数量极大的：
he gazed at the myriad lights of the city.
他凝眸眺望着城市的万家灯火。
1.1
- having countless or very many elements or aspects含有无数组成部分的; 包括极多方面的; 包罗万象的：
the myriad political scene.
包罗万象的政治舞台。
词源
mid 16th cent. (in sense 2 of the noun)： via late Latin from Greek murias, muriad-, from murioi '10,000'.