The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Many \Ma"ny\, n. [See Meine, Mansion.]
   A retinue of servants; a household. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Many \Ma"ny\, a. & pron.

   Note: [It has no variation to express degrees of comparison;
         more and most, which are used for the comparative and
         superlative degrees, are from a different root.] [OE.
         mani, moni, AS. manig, m[ae]nig, monig; akin to D.
         menig, OS. & OHG. manag, G. manch, Dan. mange, Sw.
         m[*a]nge, Goth. manags, OSlav. mnog', Russ. mnogii; cf.
         Icel. margr, Prov. E. mort. [root]103.]
   Consisting of a great number; numerous; not few.
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         Thou shalt be a father of many nations.  --Gen. xvii.
                                                  4.
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         Not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not
         many noble, are called.                  --1 Cor. i.
                                                  26.
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   Note: Many is freely prefixed to participles, forming
         compounds which need no special explanation; as,
         many-angled, many-celled, many-eyed, many-footed,
         many-handed, many-leaved, many-lettered, many-named,
         many-peopled, many-petaled, many-seeded, many-syllabled
         (polysyllabic), many-tongued, many-voiced, many-wived,
         and the like. In such usage it is equivalent to
         multi. Comparison is often expressed by many with as
         or so. "As many as were willing hearted . . . brought
         bracelets." --Exod. xxxv. 22. "So many laws argue so
         many sins." --Milton. Many stands with a singular
         substantive with a or an.
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   Many a, a large number taken distributively; each one of
      many. "For thy sake have I shed many a tear." --Shak.
      "Full many a gem of purest ray serene." --Gray.

   Many one, many a one; many persons. --Bk. of Com. Prayer.

   The many, the majority; -- opposed to the few. See
      Many, n.

   Too many, too numerous; hence, too powerful; as, they are
      too many for us. --L'Estrange.
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   Syn: Numerous; multiplied; frequent; manifold; various;
        divers; sundry.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Many \Ma"ny\, n. [AS. menigeo, menigo, menio, multitude; akin to
   G. menge, OHG. manag[imac], menig[imac], Goth. managei. See
   Many, a.]
   1. The populace; the common people; the majority of people,
      or of a community.
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            After him the rascal many ran.        --Spenser.
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   2. A large or considerable number.
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            A many of our bodies shall no doubt
            Find native graves.                   --Shak.
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            Seeing a great many in rich gowns.    --Addison.
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            It will be concluded by many that he lived like an
            honest man.                           --Fielding.
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   Note: In this sense, many is connected immediately with
         another substantive (without of) to show of what the
         many consists; as, a good many [of] people think so.
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               He is liable to a great many inconveniences.
                                                  --Tillotson.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

many
    adj 1: 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; "many
           temptations"; "the temptations are many"; "a good many";
           "a great many"; "many directions"; "take as many apples
           as you like"; "too many clouds to see"; "never saw so
           many people" [ant: few]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

202 Moby Thesaurus words for "many":
   a mass of, a world of, abounding, abundance, abundant, affluent,
   all-sufficing, ample, aplenty, army, assorted, at odds,
   at variance, bevy, billion, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful,
   bunch, cloud, clutter, common, considerable, contrary, contrasted,
   contrasting, copious, countless, covey, departing, deviating,
   deviative, different, differentiated, differing, diffuse,
   disaccordant, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, discrete,
   discriminated, disjoined, disparate, dissimilar, dissonant,
   distinct, distinguished, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse,
   diversified, effuse, epidemic, ever so many, everyday, exhaustless,
   extravagant, exuberant, fat, fertile, flight, flock, flocks, flush,
   frequent, frequentative, full, full many, galore, generous,
   habitual, hail, heaped-up, heterogeneous, hive, hordes, host,
   in disagreement, in plenty, in quantity, inaccordant, incompatible,
   incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inexhaustible,
   inharmonious, innumerable, irreconcilable, jam, jillion,
   large amount, lavish, legion, liberal, lots, luxuriant, manifold,
   many and various, many times, masses, masses of, maximal, million,
   mob, motley, much, muchness, multifarious, multifold, multiple,
   multiplied, multitude, multitudes, multitudinal, multitudinous,
   myriad, nest, no few, not a few, not rare, numberless, numbers,
   numerous, of all sorts, of common occurrence, oft-repeated,
   oftentime, opulent, ordinary, overflowing, pack, plenitudinous,
   plenteous, plentiful, plenty, plurality, poles apart,
   poles asunder, populous, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal,
   productive, profuse, profusion, profusive, quantities, quite a few,
   quite some, rampant, recurrent, replete, rich, rife, riotous, rout,
   routine, ruck, running over, scads, scores, separate, separated,
   several, shoal, shoals, sundry, superabundant, swarm, swarms,
   teeming, thick-coming, thousand, thousands, throng, tidy sum, tons,
   unconformable, uncountable, unequal, unlike, usual, variant,
   varied, variegated, various, varying, very many, voluminous,
   wealthy, well-found, well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked,
   wholesale, widely apart, worlds apart, worlds of, zillion



U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):

Many, LA -- U.S. town in Louisiana
   Population (2000):    2889
   Housing Units (2000): 1272
   Land area (2000):     3.128774 sq. miles (8.103487 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    3.128774 sq. miles (8.103487 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            48470
   Located within:       Louisiana (LA), FIPS 22
   Location:             31.567769 N, 93.477721 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     71449
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Many, LA
    Many