Meaning of many a | Babel Free

Definitions

Being one of a large number, each one of many; belonging to an aggregate or category, considered singly as one of a kind.

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Examples

“There is many a true word spoken in jest.”

“Many a flower is born to blush unseen.”

“Know then that God, to the end He be not thought, / A powerless judge, here plagueth many a fault, / And many a fault leaves here unpunished, / That men may also His last judgment dread.”

“If the 250,000 miners, which threaten to stop work, go out on strike there is likely to be many an idle mill beside the water courses and many a factory with silent spindles.”

“So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,[…]a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.”

“Many a crime has being committed in its name: there are some being committed now.”

“Danny Boyle's T2 Trainspotting is everything I could reasonably have hoped for—scary, funny, desperately sad, with many a bold visual flourish.”

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