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MANY A
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Each of a large indefinite number
Example:
many another day will come
Synonyms:
many a; many an; many another
Classified under:
Similar:
many (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)
Context examples:
But it was then that the unexpected happened, the thing which projected their struggle for supremacy far into the future, past many a weary mile of trail and toil.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
How many a man has committed himself on a short acquaintance, and rued it all the rest of his life!”
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
I ordered him to set me down, and lifting up one of my sashes, cast many a wistful melancholy look towards the sea.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Thou hast shaved many a poor soul close enough, said the other; thou art only meeting thy reward: so he played up another tune.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
I have entered many a shop to avoid your sight, as the carriage drove by.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Underneath there was an old boat-cloak, whitened with sea-salt on many a harbour-bar.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Bhurtee was relieved by Neill next day, but the rebels took me away with them in their retreat, and it was many a long year before ever I saw a white face again.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
That's the question I've been propounding to myself for many a day—not concerning you merely, but concerning everybody.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I have held my own in many a struggle, but the man had a grip of iron and the fury of a fiend.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was a good shot, too, and brought many a skin aboard under what the hunters termed impossible hunting conditions.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
