Many vs Divers - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between many and divers

is that many is a multitude; a great aggregate; a mass of people; the generality; the common herd while divers is plural of lang=en.

As a determiner many

is an indefinite large number of.

As a pronoun many

is a collective mass of people.

As an adjective divers is

obsolete spelling of lang=en, in the sense of various or assorted.

many

English

(wikipedia many)

Determiner

An indefinite large number of.

*Bible, (w) xvii.4:

*:Thou shalt be a father of many nations.

*:The big houses, and there are a good many of them, lie for the most part in what may be called by courtesy the valleys. You catch a glimpse of them sometimes at a little distance from the [railway] line, which seems to have shown some ingenuity in avoiding them,.

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Usage notes

Many'' is used with plural nouns only (except in the combination many a). Its singular counterpart is much, which is used with uncountable nouns. ''Many'' and ''much merge in the comparison forms, which are more and most for both determiners.

Antonyms

* few

Pronoun

(English Pronouns)

A collective mass of people.

An indefinite large number of people or things.

* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)

, chapter=4, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect.}}

Antonyms

* few

Derived terms

* how many * many a * so many

Quotations

* 1611 — (King James Version of the Bible), 1:1 *: Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us...

Noun

(manies)

A multitude; a great aggregate; a mass of people; the generality; the common herd.

A considerable number.

Statistics

Anagrams

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divers

English

Etymology 1

See (diver)

Noun

(head)

Etymology 2

See (diverse)

Adjective

(en adjective)

, in the sense of various or assorted.

* {{quote-book, year= 1551

, year_published= 1888 , author= , by= , title= A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society. , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=JmpXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA217 , original= , chapter= , section= Part 1 , isbn= , edition= , publisher= Clarendon Press , location= Oxford , editor= , volume= 1 , page= 217 , passage= Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber. }}

* :

And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.

* 1919 , , (My Man Jeeves) :

Shortly after this I had to go out of town. Divers sound sportsmen had invited me to pay visits to their country places, and it wasn't for several months that I settled down in the city again.

Anagrams

* ----