Much

Determiner
( more, most)


 * 1)  Large, great.
 * 2) *1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XX:
 * And so there cam strydyng a good knyght – a much man and a large, and hys name was called Sir Collgrevaunce of Goore [...].
 * 1) A large amount of.
 * 2) *1816, Jane Austen, Persuasion:
 * As it was, he did nothing with much zeal, but sport; and his time was otherwise trifled away, without benefit from books or anything else.
 * 1) *2011, "Wisconsin and wider", The Economist, 24 Feb 2011:
 * Unless matters take a nastier turn, neither side has much incentive to compromise.
 * 1)  A great number; many (people).
 * 2) *1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XX:
 * ‘Sir Launcelot woll abyde me and us all wythin the castell of Joyous Garde – and muche peple drawyth unto hym, as I here say.’
 * 1) * 1526, Bible, tr. William Tyndale, Matthew VI:
 * When Jesus was come downe from the mountayne, moch people folowed him.
 * 1) * 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula:
 * There wasn't much people about that day.

Synonyms

 * a great deal of, a lot of

Antonyms

 * little

Derived terms

 * how much

Adverb

 * 1) To a great extent.
 * I don't like fish much.
 * He is much fatter than I remember him.
 * 1) Often; frequently.
 * Does he get drunk much?

Synonyms

 * a great deal, a lot, greatly, highly,  loads, plenty, very much

Antonyms

 * less, little, few

Pronoun

 * 1) A large amount or great extent.
 * From those to whom much has been given much is expected.

Thesaurus
a deal, a great deal, a lot, abounding, abundance, abundant, abundantly, acres, affluence, affluent, again and again, all-sufficing, ample, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude, aplenty, as all creation, as all get-out, avalanche, bags, barrel, barrels, bay, beaucoup, bonanza, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, bountifulness, bountiousness, bumper crop, bushel, cater to, cocker, coddle, considerable, considerably, copious, copiousness, cosset, countless, countlessness, diffuse, effuse, eminently, epidemic, ever so, ever so much, exceedingly, exceptionally, excess, exhaustless, extravagance, extravagant, extremely, exuberance, exuberant, fat, fertile, fertility, flood, flow, flush, foison, frequently, full, full measure, fullness, galore, generosity, generous, generousness, great abundance, great deal, great plenty, greatly, gush, heap, highly, hugely, humor, in great measure, in plenty, in quantity, indulge, inexhaustible, landslide, largely, lashings, lavish, lavishness, liberal, liberality, liberalness, load, lot, lots, lump, luxuriance, luxuriant, many, mass, maximal, maximum, mess, mollycoddle, more than enough, mountain, muchly, multiplicity, multitude, multitudinous, myriad, myriads, never so, no end, no end of, not a little, notably, numerous, numerousness, ocean, oceans, oft, oftentimes, ofttimes, opulence, opulency, opulent, outpouring, over and over, overage, overflow, overflowing, oversupply, pack, pamper, peck, pile, plenitude, plenitudinous, plenteous, plenteousness, plentiful, plentifulness, plenty, plethora, power, pretty much, prevailing, prevalence, prevalent, prodigal, prodigality, productive, productiveness, profuse, profuseness, profusion, profusive, quantities, quantity, rampant, repeatedly, replete, repleteness, repletion, rich, rich harvest, rich vein, richness, rife, riot, riotous, riotousness, running over, scads, sea, shower, sight, so, so very much, spate, spoil, stream, substantiality, substantialness, superabundance, superabundant, superfluity, surpassingly, teeming, teemingness, to the skies, tons, very much, volume, wealth, wealthy, well-found, well-furnished, well-nigh, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale, world, worlds

Etymology
From muche:, apocopated variant of muchel:, from  mycel:, micel:, from, from. Cognate with mekel:,  michel:, No mye:, mykjet:, SV undefined mycket:,  meget:,  𐌼𐌹𐌺𐌹𐌻𐍃:. See also.

Note that much is not related to  mucho, and their resemblance in both form and meaning is purely coincidental, as mucho derives from Latin multus: and is not related to the  forms. True cognates include μέγας:, Modern  μεγάλος:.

Determiner

 * Albanian: shumë
 * American Sign Language:
 * Arabic: كثيرا, كثير
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: molt
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 多, 很多, 好多
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hindi: अधिक, बहुत
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: multa
 * Indonesian:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 沢山, 多く, 多い
 * Javanese: okeh
 * Korean: 많은
 * Macedonian:
 * Nahuatl: açan
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: بسیار
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: muito(s), muita(s), um monte de
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: bler
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit: बहु, adhikam, ati
 * Slovak: veľa
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: багато
 * Urdu: بہت
 * Yiddish:

Adverb

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese: 许多 (xǔduō), 多 (duō)
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 沢山の (たくさんの, takusan-no), 多い (おおい, ooi)
 * Korean: 많은 (maneun)
 * Macedonian:
 * Old French:, ,
 * Old Provençal:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: много (mnógo), очень (óčen’)
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Volapük: mödo

Anagrams

 * chum

Noun

 * 1) Genitive plural of mucha.