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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