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/mˈəltətˌud/ /mˈəltətjˌud/ Listen

noun

Multitude n.

A great number of persons collected together; a numerous collection of persons; a crowd; an assembly. "But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them."

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. "It is a fault in a multitude of preachers, that they utterly neglect method in their harangues." "A multitude of flowers As countless as the stars on high."

The state of being many; numerousness. "They came as grasshoppers for multitude."

The multitude, the populace; the mass of men.

Synonyms: Throng; crowd; assembly; assemblage; commonalty; swarm; populace; vulgar. See Throng.

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Etymology of 'Multitude'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Multitude" Quotes from Famous Books

... stories were believed by many people, and Shakspere, being infected by the hate of the multitude (for the first time in his intellectual career), fashioned the repulsive character of Shylock, who walks the world as a synonym of greed, ...

— Shakspere, Personal Recollections • John A. Joyce

... wisdom of the divinity. I feel his infinite greatness as I gaze on the wide expanse of deep blue sea; it comes home to me at night when I lift my eyes to the skies and see the sparkling hosts of stars roll over my head. Who created that countless multitude, who guides them so that they glide past in glorious harmony, and rise and set, accurately timed to minutes and seconds, silent but full of meaning, immeasurably distant and yet closely linked with the fate of individual men?—All this bears witness to the existence of a God, and as you contemplate ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... on the most splendid throne of the universe, and Louis alone in the tower of the Temple or on the scaffold. But there is a class of men who received the news of the late execution with much more heartfelt sorrow than that which you, among such a multitude, so officiously express. The passion of pity is one of which, above all others, a Christian teacher should be cautious of cherishing the abuse when, under the influence of reason, it is regulated by the disproportion of the pain suffered to the guilt incurred. It is from ...

— The Prose Works of William Wordsworth • William Wordsworth

... maid when she first dreams of man, And from beneath two silken eyelids sent, The sidelong light of two such wondrous eyes, That all the saints grew sinners . . . Then a professor of God's word he seemed, And o'er a multitude of upturned eyes Showered blessed dews, and made the pitchy path, Down which howl damned Spirits, seem the bright Thrice hallowed way to Heaven; yet grimly through The glorious veil of those seducing shapes, Frowned out ...

— Welsh Folk-Lore - a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales • Elias Owen

... that first giddiness had passed, it was succeeded by another intoxication—the joy of being an individual, the knowledge that he was separate, not a part of a multitude. Without the Skin he could think as he pleased. He did ...

— Rastignac the Devil • Philip Jose Farmer

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