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multitude

mul·ti·tude

UK/ˈmʌltɪtjuːd/ US/-t͡ʃ-/ uncommon

noun

1.

a large indefinite number

  • “a battalion of ants”
  • “a multitude of TV antennas”
  • “a plurality of religions”
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2.
3.

the common people generally

  • “separate the warriors from the mass”
  • “power to the people”
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Origin

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.

Phrases

  • contain multitudes
  • of multitude

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