multitude
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English multitude, multitud, multytude, borrowed from Old French multitude, or directly from its etymon Latin multitūdō, from multus + -tūdō.
Pronunciation Nounmultitude (plural multitudes)
- A great amount or number, often of people; abundance, myriad, profusion.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: The Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC ↗:
- A torrential rain poured down from the floodgates of the angry heavens upon the bared heads of the assembled multitude which numbered at the lowest computation five hundred thousand persons.
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIV, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC ↗:
- We found Pop Glossop in his pantry polishing silver, and put in our order. He seemed a little surprised at the inrush of such a multitude, but on learning that our tongues were hanging out obliged with a bottle of the best […]
- The mass of ordinary people; the masses, the populace.
- Synonyms: crowd
- 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC ↗, page 117 ↗:
- Along with its natural protectors and guardians, learning will be caſt into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a ſwiniſh multitude.
- French: multitude
- German: Vielzahl, Menge
- Italian: moltitudine
- Portuguese: multidão, massa, povo
- Russian: мно́жество
- Spanish: multitud
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