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Multitude

//ˈmʌltɪtjuːd// noun

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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

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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