Synonyms 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

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

   Antonyms:
   paucity, scantiness, sprinkling

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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

Matched Categories

1. • Gathering
   • Group

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1. multitudenoun

   Synonyms:
   host, legion, crowd, throng, concourse, confluence, army, swarm, a great number, a great many

2. multitudenoun

   Synonyms:
   rabble, MOB, the populace, the vulgar, dregs of the people, scum of society

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1. multitudenoun

   Synonyms:
   crowd, throng, host

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1. List of paraphrases for "multitude":

   myriad, multiplicity, plethora, crowd, variety, multiple, host, wealth

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How to use multitude in a sentence?

1. William Ellery Channing:

   Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aidthem to judge for themselves.

2. Dr. Dale E. Turner:

   God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives--DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.

3. Alexander Hamilton, Loth, Dave, Alexander Hamilton, Portrait of a Prodigy, Rahway, Carrick & Evans, Inc., 1939:

   The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for opposition to tyranny and oppression, very naturally leads them to a contempt and disregard of all authority.

4. Fyodor Dostoevsky:

   By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

5. Michael Bivona:

   Certainly a great place for anyone that believes in magic and loves dealing with children aged one to ninety, disney doesn’t have a monopoly on seasonal and part-time employment. Football and baseball stadiums have a multitude of part-time jobs available such as ticket takers, ushers, driving players and staff to and from airports and clerical work. What better way to earn additional income than to be in an environment that one might love?