Antonyms for multitude
ˈmʌl tɪˌtud, -ˌtyudmul·ti·tude

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1. multitude

   An army is an organized body of men armed for war, ordinarily considerable in numbers, always independent in organization so far as not to be a constituent part of any other command. Organization, unity, and independence, rather than numbers are the essentials of an army. We speak of the invading army of Cortes or Pizarro, tho either body was contemptible in numbers from a modern military standpoint. We may have a little army, a large army, or a vast army. Host is used for any vast and orderly assemblage; as, the stars are called the heavenly host. Multitude expresses number without order or organization; a multitude of armed men is not an army, but a mob. Legion (from the Latin) and phalanx (from the Greek) are applied by a kind of poetic license to modern forces; the plural legions is preferred to the singular. Military is a general word for land-forces; the military may include all the armed soldiery of a nation, or the term may be applied to any small detached company, as at a fort, in distinction from civilians. Any organized body of men by whom the law or will of a people is executed is a force; the word is a usual term for the police of any locality.

   Synonyms:
   armament, army, array, force, forces, host, legions, military, phalanx, soldiers, soldiery, troops

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1. multitude

   Antonyms:
   paucity, scantiness, sprinkling

   Synonyms:
   crowd, swarm, accumulation, throng, concourse, number, host, mob, rabble

Matched Categories

1. • Gathering
   • Group

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1. battalion, large number, multitude, plurality, packnoun

   a large indefinite number

   "a battalion of ants"; "a multitude of TV antennas"; "a plurality of religions"

   Synonyms:
   mob, mass, coterie, masses, pack, gang, plurality, battalion, ingroup, large number, inner circle, the great unwashed, face pack, clique, camp, concourse, throng, hoi polloi, ring, relative majority, people

2. multitude, throng, concoursenoun

   a large gathering of people

   Synonyms:
   concourse, large number, the great unwashed, hoi polloi, pack, people, mass, battalion, masses, plurality, throng, confluence

3. multitude, masses, mass, hoi polloi, people, the great unwashednoun

   the common people generally

   "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people"

   Synonyms:
   tidy sum, plurality, wad, peck, mint, plenty, lot, pack, hoi polloi, batch, raft, quite a little, passel, pile, muckle, volume, mass, good deal, stack, mountain, deal, battalion, throng, flock, hatful, mickle, slew, citizenry, heap, mess, people, sight, large number, concourse, spate, the great unwashed, bulk, great deal, masses, pot

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1. multitudenoun

   Synonyms:
   crowd, throng, host

How to use multitude in a sentence?

1. Thomas Jefferson:

   He [King George III] has erected a multitude of New Offices and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.

2. Jeff Swartz:

   I think we are going to see a multitude of approaches to CO2 pricing. Some of this will happen at this process and some will happen outside.

3. Galileo Galilei, The Assayer:

   Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new.

4. Hendrik Leber:

   From the outside the whole process looks chaotic. Every American must doubt the sanity of the European decision-making processes, strict rules are broken. The biggest sinner gets the biggest attention. A multitude of voices.

5. Book of Proverbs:

   Where no counsel is, the people fall but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

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