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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Many \Ma"ny\, noun [See {Meine}, {Mansion}.] A retinue of servants; a household. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Many \Ma"ny\, adjective & pronoun
Note: [It has no variation to express degrees of comparison; more and most, which are used for the comparative and superlative degrees, are from a different root.] [OE. mani, moni, AS. manig, m[ae]nig, monig; akin to D. menig, OS. & OHG. manag, G. manch, Dan. mange, Sw. m[*a]nge, Goth. manags, OSlav. mnog', Russ. mnogii; cf. Icel. margr, Prov. E. mort. [root]103.] Consisting of a great number; numerous; not few.
Thou shalt be a father of many nations. --Gen. xvii. 4.
Not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. --1 Cor. i. 26.
Note: Many is freely prefixed to participles, forming compounds which need no special explanation; as, many-angled, many-celled, many-eyed, many-footed, many-handed, many-leaved, many-lettered, many-named, many-peopled, many-petaled, many-seeded, many-syllabled (polysyllabic), many-tongued, many-voiced, many-wived, and the like. In such usage it is equivalent to {multi}. Comparison is often expressed by many with as or so. ''As many as were willing hearted . . . brought bracelets.'' --Exod. xxxv. 22. ''So many laws argue so many sins.'' --Milton. Many stands with a singular substantive with a or an.
{Many a}, a large number taken distributively; each one of many. ''For thy sake have I shed many a tear.'' --Shak. ''Full many a gem of purest ray serene.'' --Gray.
{Many one}, many a one; many persons. --Bk. of Com. Prayer.
{The many}, the majority; -- opposed to {the few}. See {Many}, noun
{Too many}, too numerous; hence, too powerful; as, they are too many for us. --L'Estrange.
Syn: Numerous; multiplied; frequent; manifold; various; divers; sundry.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Many \Ma"ny\, noun [AS. menigeo, menigo, menio, multitude; akin to G. menge, OHG. manag[=i], menig[=i], Goth. managei. See {Many}, adjective]
1. The populace; the common people; the majority of people, or of a community.
After him the rascal many ran. --Spenser.
2. A large or considerable number.
A many of our bodies shall no doubt Find native graves. --Shak.
Seeing a great many in rich gowns. --Addison.
It will be concluded by many that he lived like an honest man. --Fielding.
Note: In this sense, many is connected immediately with another substantive (without of) to show of what the many consists; as, a good many [of] people think so.
He is liable to a great many inconveniences. --Tillotson.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
many
adjective: a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by 'as' or 'too' or 'so' or 'that'; amounting to a large but indefinite number; "many temptations"; "the temptations are many"; "a good many"; "a great many"; "many directions"; "take as many apples as you like"; "too many clouds to see"; "never saw so many people" [ant: {few}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
202 Moby Thesaurus words for "many": a mass of, a world of, abounding, abundance, abundant, affluent, all-sufficing, ample, aplenty, army, assorted, at odds, at variance, bevy, billion, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, bunch, cloud, clutter, common, considerable, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, copious, countless, covey, departing, deviating, deviative, different, differentiated, differing, diffuse, disaccordant, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disjoined, disparate, dissimilar, dissonant, distinct, distinguished, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, effuse, epidemic, ever so many, everyday, exhaustless, extravagant, exuberant, fat, fertile, flight, flock, flocks, flush, frequent, frequentative, full, full many, galore, generous, habitual, hail, heaped-up, heterogeneous, hive, hordes, host, in disagreement, in plenty, in quantity, inaccordant, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inexhaustible, inharmonious, innumerable, irreconcilable, jam, jillion, large amount, lavish, legion, liberal, lots, luxuriant, manifold, many and various, many times, masses, masses of, maximal, million, mob, motley, much, muchness, multifarious, multifold, multiple, multiplied, multitude, multitudes, multitudinal, multitudinous, myriad, nest, no few, not a few, not rare, numberless, numbers, numerous, of all sorts, of common occurrence, oft-repeated, oftentime, opulent, ordinary, overflowing, pack, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, plurality, poles apart, poles asunder, populous, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusion, profusive, quantities, quite a few, quite some, rampant, recurrent, replete, rich, rife, riotous, rout, routine, ruck, running over, scads, scores, separate, separated, several, shoal, shoals, sundry, superabundant, swarm, swarms, teeming, thick-coming, thousand, thousands, throng, tidy sum, tons, unconformable, uncountable, unequal, unlike, usual, variant, varied, variegated, various, varying, very many, voluminous, wealthy, well-found, well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale, widely apart, worlds apart, worlds of, zillion
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Many, LA (town, FIPS 48470) Location: 31.56536 N, 93.47486 W Population (1990): 3112 (1339 housing units) Area: 6.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 71449
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Many, LA -- U.S. town in Louisiana Population (2000): 2889 Housing Units (2000): 1272 Land area (2000): 3.128774 sq. miles (8.103487 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 3.128774 sq. miles (8.103487 sq. km) FIPS code: 48470 Located within: Louisiana (LA), FIPS 22 Location: 31.567769 N, 93.477721 W ZIP Codes (1990): 71449 Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Many, LA Many
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