much

CEFRA1

/mʌt͡ʃ/

determiner

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In plain English

  1. 01

    determiner

    A large amount of something.

  2. 02

    determiner

    Extra detail

    A great number of; many (people).

Examples

  • If you look at the lyrics, they don't really mean much.

  • It's not much of a surprise, is it?

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

determiner

Extra meanings

  1. Used to indicate, demonstrate or compare the quantity of something.

  2. A large amount of.

  3. many ( + plural countable noun).

More examples

In context

  • Thank you very much for the flowers.

  • After much discussion, we decided to set about the task with much enthusiasm.

  • Did you do much running last summer?

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Origin

determiner

From Middle English muche (“much, great”), apocopated variant of muchel (“much, great”), from Old English myċel, miċel (“big, much”), from Proto-West Germanic *mikil, from Proto-Germanic *mikilaz (“great, many, much”), from Proto-Indo-European *meǵh₂- (“big, stour, great”). See also mickle, muckle. Cognates Cognate with Scots mickle, mukill, mekil, mikil (“big, large, great, much”), Middle Dutch mēkel (“great, many, much”), Middle High German michel ("great, many, much"; > German michel (“great, big, large”)), Norwegian Bokmål mye (“much”), Norwegian Nynorsk mykje (“much”), Swedish mycket (“much”), Danish meget (“much”), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌺𐌹𐌻𐍃 (mikils, “great, many”), Ancient Greek μέγας (méga...