'Multitude' definitions:
Definition of 'multitude'
(from WordNet)
noun
A large indefinite number; "a battalion of ants"; "a multitude of TV antennas"; "a plurality of religions" [syn: battalion, large number, multitude, plurality, pack]
noun
noun
The common people generally; "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people" [syn: multitude, masses, mass, hoi polloi, people, the great unwashed]
Definition of 'Multitude'
From: GCIDE
- Multitude \Mul"ti*tude\, n. [F. multitude, L. multitudo, multitudinis, fr. multus much, many; of unknown origin.]
- 1. A great number of persons collected together; a numerous collection of persons; a crowd; an assembly. [1913 Webster]
- But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them. --Matt. ix. 36. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A great number of persons or things, regarded collectively; as, the book will be read by a multitude of people; the multitude of stars; a multitude of cares. [1913 Webster]
- It is a fault in a multitude of preachers, that they utterly neglect method in their harangues. --I. Watts. [1913 Webster]
- A multitude of flowers As countless as the stars on high. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The state of being many; numerousness. [1913 Webster]
- They came as grasshoppers for multitude. --Judg. vi. 5. [1913 Webster]
- The multitude, the populace; the mass of men. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Throng; crowd; assembly; assemblage; commonalty; swarm; populace; vulgar. See Throng. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'multitude'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a mass of,
- a world of,
- abundance,
- acres,
- army,
- bags,
- barrels,
- bevy,
- bunch,
- bushel,
- cloud,
- cluster,
- clutter,
- cohue,
- copiousness,
- countlessness,
- covey,
- crowd,
- crush,
- deluge,
- flight,
- flock,
- flocks,
- flood,
- galaxy,
- hail,
- heap,
- hive,
- horde,
- host,
- ignobile vulgus,
- jam,
- large amount,
- legion,
- load,
- lots,
- many,
- many-headed multitude,
- mass,
- masses of,
- mob,
- mobile vulgus,
- mountain,
- much,
- muchness,
- nest,
- numbers,
- numerousness,
- ocean,
- oceans,
- pack,
- panoply,
- peck,
- plenitude,
- plenty,
- plurality,
- press,
- profusion,
- quantities,
- quantity,
- quite a few,
- rabble,
- rout,
- ruck,
- scores,
- sea,
- shoal,
- spate,
- superabundance,
- superfluity,
- swarm,
- the common herd,
- the crowd,
- the great unnumbered,
- the great unwashed,
- the herd,
- the hoi polloi,
- the horde,
- the majority,
- the many,
- the masses,
- the mob,
- the multitude,
- throng,
- tidy sum,
- tons,
- volume,
- world,
- worlds,
- worlds of