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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

... flinging the water over him. But instead of losing his shape, as so many had done before, he only grew ten times handsomer; for the water was enchanted for good and not ill. Then the creeping multitude around the witch hastened to roll themselves in the water, and stood up, ...

— The Orange Fairy Book • Andrew Lang

... border of the hike, and advancing towards its northern extremity, the traveller easily recognises that desert place where the multitude was fed upon the miraculous loaves and fishes. Here, too, was the scene of the remarkable punishment inflicted upon the Gadarenes for their insensibility to Divine instruction, as well, perhaps, as for their unhallowed pursuit in feeding animals forbidden by the law of Moses. The brink of the water ...

— Palestine or the Holy Land - From the Earliest Period to the Present Time • Michael Russell

... expression to hold up each object of monomania in its right relations. 'The ambitious and mercenary bring their last new Mumbo-Jumbo—whether tariff, railway, mesmerism, or California—and by detaching the object from its relations, easily succeed in making it seen in a glare, and a multitude go mad about it; and they are not to be reproved or cured by the opposite multitude, who are kept from this particular insanity by an equal frenzy on another crotchet. But let one man have the comprehensive eye that can replace this isolated prodigy in its right neighbourhood ...

— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 451 - Volume 18, New Series, August 21, 1852 • Various

... the close of the harangue; and then you might see, after a minute's pause, the crowd breaking in all directions, and pouring down the avenues in various knots and groups, each testifying the strong and lasting impression made upon the multitude by that address. Every cheek was flushed—every tongue spoke: the animation of the orator had passed, like a living spirit, into the breasts of the audience. He had thundered against the disorders of the patricians, yet, by a word, he had disarmed the anger of the plebeians—he ...

— Rienzi • Edward Bulwer Lytton

... "The multitude of victims has not robbed us of courage in the past, nor will it so rob us in the future—till victory dawns. The cause of the people is like the cause of religion—it triumphs only through its martyrs.... You—who ...

— Lady Rose's Daughter • Mrs. Humphry Ward

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