many a
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.89 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
det
Being one of a large number, each one of many; belonging to an aggregate or category, considered singly as one of a kind.
Example Sentences
- "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."