diff --git a/docs/markdown/snippets/install-many-emptydirs.md b/docs/markdown/snippets/install-many-emptydirs.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..27505ae93447
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/markdown/snippets/install-many-emptydirs.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+## [[install_emptydir]] now supports multiple dirs inside one call
+
+Prior to this release passing multiple paths as `dirpath` argument was resulting in only the first path to get created. The rest were ignored. That was expected behavior as [[install_emptydir]] was documented to only take a single path. But it also had an incorrect type annotation that claimed for it to take multiple paths, which led to confusion.
+
+Now passing more than one path in `dirpath` will create all of them.
diff --git a/docs/yaml/functions/install_emptydir.yaml b/docs/yaml/functions/install_emptydir.yaml
index df84f60b5d9c..b2f5df17aaf7 100644
--- a/docs/yaml/functions/install_emptydir.yaml
+++ b/docs/yaml/functions/install_emptydir.yaml
@@ -2,17 +2,18 @@ name: install_emptydir
 returns: void
 since: 0.60.0
 description: |
-  Installs a new directory entry to the location specified by the positional
-  argument. If the directory exists and is not empty, the contents are left in
-  place.
+  Installs a directory (more than one allowed since 1.4.0) to the location
+  specified by the positional argument. If the directory exists and is not
+  empty, the contents are left in place.
 
 warnings:
   - the `install_mode` kwarg ignored integer values before 1.1.0.
+  - second path and beyond passed as dirpath were ignored before 1.4.0.
 
 varargs:
   name: dirpath
   type: str
-  description: Directory to create during installation.
+  description: Directories to create during installation.
 
 kwargs:
   install_mode:
diff --git a/mesonbuild/interpreter/interpreter.py b/mesonbuild/interpreter/interpreter.py
index bf2a21d4bd4d..cadca6b4777b 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/interpreter/interpreter.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/interpreter/interpreter.py
@@ -2301,14 +2301,18 @@ def func_install_man(self, node: mparser.BaseNode,
         return m
 
     @FeatureNew('install_emptydir', '0.60.0')
+    @typed_pos_args('install_emptydir', varargs=str, min_varargs=1)
     @typed_kwargs(
         'install_emptydir',
         INSTALL_MODE_KW,
         KwargInfo('install_tag', (str, NoneType), since='0.62.0')
     )
-    def func_install_emptydir(self, node: mparser.BaseNode, args: T.Tuple[str], kwargs) -> None:
-        d = build.EmptyDir(args[0], kwargs['install_mode'], self.subproject, kwargs['install_tag'])
-        self.build.emptydir.append(d)
+    def func_install_emptydir(self, node: mparser.BaseNode, args: T.Tuple[T.List[str]], kwargs) -> None:
+        if len(args[0]) > 1:
+            FeatureNew.single_use('install_emptydir with more than one directory', '1.4.0', self.subproject, location=node)
+        self.build.emptydir += \
+            [build.EmptyDir(one_dir, kwargs['install_mode'], self.subproject, kwargs['install_tag'])
+             for one_dir in args[0]]
 
     @FeatureNew('install_symlink', '0.61.0')
     @typed_pos_args('symlink_name', str)
diff --git a/test cases/common/248 install_emptydir/meson.build b/test cases/common/248 install_emptydir/meson.build
index a5eb046e48c1..cdeb434297c4 100644
--- a/test cases/common/248 install_emptydir/meson.build	
+++ b/test cases/common/248 install_emptydir/meson.build	
@@ -2,3 +2,7 @@ project('install_emptydir')
 
 install_emptydir(get_option('datadir')/'new_directory', install_mode: 'rwx------')
 install_emptydir(get_option('datadir')/'new_directory/subdir', install_mode: 'rwxr-----')
+install_emptydir([get_option('datadir')/'dir1',
+                  get_option('datadir')/'dir2',
+                  get_option('datadir')/'dir3'
+                 ])
diff --git a/test cases/common/248 install_emptydir/test.json b/test cases/common/248 install_emptydir/test.json
index 17abe74bf18e..93522abb7940 100644
--- a/test cases/common/248 install_emptydir/test.json	
+++ b/test cases/common/248 install_emptydir/test.json	
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 {
   "installed": [
     { "type": "dir", "file": "usr/share/new_directory" },
-    { "type": "dir", "file": "usr/share/new_directory/subdir" }
+    { "type": "dir", "file": "usr/share/new_directory/subdir" },
+    { "type": "dir", "file": "usr/share/dir1" },
+    { "type": "dir", "file": "usr/share/dir2" },
+    { "type": "dir", "file": "usr/share/dir3" }
   ]
 }
-