myriad

This is for all the Humber grads (up to #5 now) who keep telling me the same damn, and very tired, story about the use of the word 'myriad' and have no clue - that with a little research called "looking in the dictionary" - they would realize that both they and their professor, are actually only half right.

Which also means you are half-wrong.

Please take your severely low-grade language snobbery somewhere else please.

MYR-I-AD
poetic/literary

noun
1 - a countless or extremely great number: networks connecting a myriad of computers.
2 - (chiefly in classical history) a unit of ten thousand.

adjective
countless or extremely great in number: the myriad lights of the city.
- having countless or very many elements or aspects: the myriad political scene.

ORIGIN
mid 16th cent. (sense 2 of the noun): via late Latin from Greek murias, muriad, from murioi '10,000'

USAGE
Myriad is derived from Greek noun and adjective meaning 'ten thousand'. It was first used in English as a noun in reference to a great but indefinite number. The adjectival sense of 'countless, innumerable' appeared much later. In modern English, use of myriad as a noun and adjective are equally standard and correct, despite the fact that some traditionalists consider the adjective as the only acceptable use of the word.