Much

• Much, an English adverb, expression of quantity. However, Much is used with uncountable nouns. The equivalent used with countable nouns is many.
• MuchMusic, a cable network in Canada, and its domestic and international spin-offs.
• Much, Germany, a municipality in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
• Much (album), an album by Christian band Ten Shekel Shirt.
• Much the Miller's Son, one of Robin Hood's Merry Men from the earliest tales.

Determiner

1. (obsolete) Large, great. [12th-16th c.]
   • 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 [...].

2. A large amount of. [from 13th c.]
   • 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.

   • 2011, "Wisconsin and wider", The Economist, 24 Feb 2011:

     Unless matters take a nastier turn, neither side has much incentive to compromise.

3. (now archaic or nonstandard) A great number; many (people). [from 13th c.]
   • 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.’

   • 1526, Bible, tr. William Tyndale, Matthew VI:

     When Jesus was come downe from the mountayne, moch people folowed him.

   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula:

     There wasn't much people about that day.

• Much is now generally used with uncountable nouns. The equivalent used with countable nouns is many. In positive contexts, much is avoided: I have a lot of money but not *I have much money.
• Unlike many determiners, much is frequently modified by intensifying adverbs, as in “too much”, “very much”, “so much”, “not much”, and so on. (The same is true of many.)