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

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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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1. President Richard Brodhead:

   One person put up that noose, but this is the multitude of people who got together to say that's not the Duke we want, that's not the Duke we're here for, and that's not the Duke we're here to create.

2. 1 Peter 47-8 Bible:

   The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear minded and self-controlled so that you can pray. Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

3. 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.

4. Charles Baudelaire:

   If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the natural support it will find in the stupidity of the multitude. It must return to its real task, which is to be the servant of the sciences and the arts, but the very humble servant, like printing and shorthand which have neither created nor supplanted literature.

5. Jean Paul Friedrich Richter:

   In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character the multitude pass us by like a distant army.