Multitude

//ˈmʌltɪtjuːd// noun

noun ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A great amount or number, often of people; abundance, myriad, profusion.

    "Do I contradict myself? / Very well then I contradict myself, / (I am large, I contain multitudes.)"

  2. 2
    the common people generally wordnet
  3. 3
    The mass of ordinary people; the masses, the populace.

    "Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil"

  4. 4
    a large gathering of people wordnet
  5. 5
    a large indefinite quantity wordnet

Synonyms

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slewa mass ofa world ofabundanceacresarmy

Example

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"The mandatory character of schooling is rarely analyzed in the multitude of works dedicated to the study of the various ways to develop within children the desire to learn."

Etymology

From Middle English multitude, multitud, multytude (“(great) amount or number of people or things; multitudinous”), borrowed from Old French multitude (“crowd of people; diversity, wide range”), or directly from its etymon Latin multitūdō (“great amount or number of people or things”), from multus (“many; much”) + -tūdō (suffix forming abstract nouns indicating a state or condition). The English word is analysable as multi- + -itude.

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