Multitude

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  • noun. A very great number.
  • noun. The masses; the populace.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The character of being many; numerousness; also, a great number regarded collectively or as congregated together.
  • noun. A great number, indefinitely.
  • noun. A crowd or throng; a gathering or collection of people.
  • noun. Synonyms Multitude, Throng, Crowd, swarm, mass, host, legion. A multitude, however great, may he in a space so large as to give each one ample room; a throng or a crowd is generally smaller than a multitude, but is gathered into a close body, a throng being a company that presses together or forward, and a crowd carrying the closeness to uncomfortable physical contact.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A great number of persons collected together; a numerous collection of persons; a crowd; an assembly.
  • noun. A great number of persons or things, regarded collectively
  • noun. The state of being many; numerousness.
  • noun. the populace; the mass of men.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A great amount or number, often of people.
  • noun. The mass of ordinary people; the populous or the masses
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the common people generally
  • noun. a large gathering of people
  • noun. a large indefinite number
  • Word Usage
    "The name of Democracy was assumed because it was discovered to be _very taking_ among the multitude; yet, after all, it is but the investment of the _multitude_ with absolute power."
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