muôn nghìn

Một cánh đồng hoa muôn nghìn sắc màu trải dài đến chân trời.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Countless / innumerable / myriad: An emphatic literary term used to describe an extremely large, indefinite, and often poetic number of things or people. It combines the meaning of "muôn" (ten thousand) and "nghìn" (thousand) to express a vast, overwhelming quantity.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Muôn nghìn ngôi sao lấp lánh trên bầu trời đêm. (Countless stars twinkle in the night sky.)
  • Cô ấy đã nhận được muôn nghìn lời chúc mừng. (She received innumerable congratulations.)
  • Nhà thơ cảm nhận muôn nghìn cảm xúc. (The poet feels a myriad of emotions.)

Advanced Usage

• The term is primarily used in literary, poetic, or formal contexts to add emphasis and a sense of grandeur or vastness. It is less common in everyday spoken language.

Variants and Related Words

• Hàng nghìn hàng vạn (idiomatic phrase): tens of thousands, a great many.

  • Hàng nghìn hàng vạn người đã tham dự lễ hội. (Tens of thousands of people attended the festival.)

• Vô số (adjective): countless, innumerable (more common in general use).

  • Có vô số lý do để hạnh phúc. (There are countless reasons to be happy.)

Synonyms

• Countless: Too many to be counted.
• Innumerable: Too many to be counted.
• Myriad: A countless or extremely great number.
• Uncountable: Not able to be counted.

Related Idioms

• Muôn hình vạn trạng: (lit. ten thousand forms, ten thousand shapes) meaning manifold/innumerable forms and variations.

  • Cuộc sống muôn hình vạn trạng. (Life is manifold and varied.)

• Muôn đời: (lit. ten thousand lifetimes) meaning forever, for all eternity.

  • Tình yêu ấy sẽ còn mãi muôn đời. (That love will last forever.)