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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | heap |
| Synonyms: | a lot*, abundance, agglomeration, aggregation, amassment, assemblage, bank, batch, bulk, bunch, bundle, cargo, clump, cluster, collection, concentration, congeries, deposit, fullness, gathering, gobs, great deal, harvest, haul, hill, hoard, jillion, jumble, load, lot, lots, lump, mass, million, mint, mound, mountain*, much, multiplicity, ocean, oodles*, plenty, pot, profusion, quantity, ream, scad, stack, stock, stockpile, store, sum, thousand, ton, total*, trillion, volume, whole |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inlet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | arm of the sea |
| Synonyms: | basin, bay, bayou, bight, canal, channel, cove, creek, delta, entrance, estuary, firth, fjord, gulf, harbor, ingress, loch, narrows, passage, slew, slough, sound, strait |
| Main Entry: | multitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large group |
| Synonyms: | aggregation, army, assemblage, assembly, collection, commonalty, concourse, congregation, crowd, crush, drove, great number, heap, herd, horde, host, infinitude, infinity, jam*, legion, loads, lot, lots*, majority, mass, mob, much, myriad, number, numbers, ocean*, oodles*, people, plenitude, plurality, populace, proletariat, public, push*, quantity, scores, sea, slew, swarm, throng, turnout |
| Antonyms: | handful, portion, single, zero |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | myriad |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a lot |
| Synonyms: | army, flood, heap, horde, host, loads, mint, mountain*, multitude, oodles*, scores, slew, stacks, swarm, thousands |
| Antonyms: | little |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | number |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aggregate, bunch |
| Synonyms: | abundance, amount, caboodle, collection, company, conglomeration, crowd, estimate, flock, horde, jillion, lot, manifoldness, many, multitude, plenitude, plenty, product, quantity, slew, sum, throng, total, totality, umpteen, volume, whole, zillion |
| Notes: | use 'amount' with things that cannot be counted but 'number' with things that can be counted number is regularly used with count nouns, while amount is mainly used with mass nouns: number of mistakes, amount of money numerals are symbols; numbers are the things that numerals symbolize |
| Antonyms: | one |
| Main Entry: | wad |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ball of something |
| Synonyms: | back, block, boodle, bunch, bundle, chunk, clump, cushion, fortune, gathering, heap, hunk, lining, lump, mass, mint, nugget, packet, pad, pile, plug, pot, ream, roll, slew, stuff, tuft, wadding |
| Main Entry: | lots |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great quantity |
| Synonyms: | acres, galore, gobs, legion, legions, loads, many, oodles, plenty, realty, reams, scads, slathers, slew, tons, wad |
| Antonyms: | little |
| Main Entry: | bounteousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plenty |
| Synonyms: | abundance, ample amount, bountifulness, copiousness, great deal, plenitude, plenteousness, slew |
| Main Entry: | bountifulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plenty |
| Synonyms: | abundance, ample amount, bounteousness, copiousness, great deal, plenitude, plenteousness, slew |
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