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Definition of Many-sided

1. Adjective. Having many parts or sides.

2. Adjective. Having many aspects. "A miscellaneous crowd"

3. Adjective. Full of variety or interest. "A many-sided personality"

Definition of Many-sided

1. Adjective. Having many sides; polygonal ¹

2. Adjective. Having many aspects ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Many-sided

manutentions manuterge manuterges manutergium manward manwards manway manways manwise manwomen

manx many many-sided (current term) many-sidedness many-sorted logic many-worlds interpretation many a many a(a) many a mickle makes a muckle many a time and oft

many an many an(a) many another(a) many hands make light work many happy returns many more(a) many thanks

Literary usage of Many-sided

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"He was broad-minded and many-sided, because he would look at the truth from every point of view. He was careless of traditions, because he sought solid ..."

2. Our Foreign-born Citizens: What They Have Done for America by Annie E. S. Beard (1922)
"... A many-sided GENIUS CHARLES PROTEUS STEINMETZ A GREAT mind in a small body—he stands only four feet high and carries an enormous head between high ..."

3. Modern Eloquence by Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh (1900)
"THE many-sided PURITAN [Speech of Horace Porter at the eighty-second annual dinner of the New England Society in the City of New York, December 22, 1887. ..."

4. An Introduction to Herbart's Science and Practice of Education by Henry M. Felkin, Emmie Felkin (1900)
"many-sided " Mediate interest," says Herbart, " tends, the interest, ... Interest," says Herbart, " arises from interesting objects ; many-sided interest ..."

5. French Civilization in the Nineteenth Century: A Historical Introduction by Albert Léon Guérard (1914)
"... achievement—Resources: fertility overrated]; harbours, rivers, and mineral wealth mediocre—But many-sided, -well-balanced—The human factor predominant. ..."

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