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| Main Entry: | multitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large group |
| Synonyms: | aggregation, army, assemblage, assembly, collection, concourse, congregation, crowd, crush, drove, heap, herd, horde, host, infinity, jam*, legion, lot, lots*, majority, mass, mob, much, myriad, number, ocean*, oodles*, people, plurality, populace, proletariat, public, push*, quantity, sea, swarm, throng, turnout, commonalty, great number, infinitude, loads, numbers, plenitude, scores, slew |
| Antonyms: | handful, portion, single, zero |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Synonyms: |
-nouns
multitude; numerous; numerosity, numerality; multiplicity; profusion (plenty) [more]; legion, host; great number, large number, round number, enormous number; a quantity, numbers, array, sight, army, sea, galaxy; scores, peck, bushel, shoal, swarm, draught, bevy, cloud, flock, herd, drove, flight, covey, hive, brood, litter, farrow, fry, nest; crowd (assemblage) [more]; lots; all in the world and his wife., [Increase of number] greater number, majority; multiplication, multiple.
-verbs
be numerous; swarm with, teem with, creep with; crowd, swarm, come thick upon; outnumber, multiply; people; swarm like locusts, swarm like bees.
-adjectives
many, several, sundry, divers, various, not a few; Briarean; a hundred, a thousand, a myriad, a million, a quadrillion, a nonillion, a thousand and one; some ten or a dozen, some forty or fifty; half a dozen, half a hundred; very many, full many, ever so many; numerous; numerose; profuse, in profusion; manifold, multiplied, multitudinous, multiple, multinominal, teeming, populous, peopled, crowded, thick, studded; galore., thick coming, many more, more than one can tell, a world of; no end of, no end to; cum multis aliis; thick as hops, thick as hail; plenty as blackberries; numerous as the stars in the firmament, numerous as the sands on the seashore, numerous as the hairs on the head; and what not, and heaven knows what; endless (infinite) [more].
-phrases
their name is "legion"; acervatim; en foule; "many-headed multitude" [Sidney]; "numerous as glittering gems of morning dew" [Young]; vel
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| Antonyms: | fewness |
| Main Entry: | battalion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | military division |
| Synonyms: | army, brigade, company, contingent, corps, force, horde, host, legion, multitude, regiment, squadron, throng, unit |
| Main Entry: | bunch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | collection of something |
| Synonyms: | agglomeration, assemblage, assortment, band, batch, bevy, blob, bouquet, bundle, chunk, clump, cluster, covey, crew, crowd, fascicle, flock, galaxy, gang, gathering, group, heap, host, hunk, knot, lot, mass, mess, mob, multitude, number, oodles*, pack, parcel, party, pile, quantity, shock, spray, stack, swarm, team, thicket, troop, tuft, caboodle, passel, sheaf, shebang, shooting match |
| Antonyms: | individual, one |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | confluence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coming together |
| Synonyms: | assemblage, assembly, concourse, concurrence, convergence, crowd, gathering, host, junction, meeting, mob, multitude, union, concursion, conflux |
| Main Entry: | congregation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | assembled group, especially concerned with church-going |
| Synonyms: | aggregation, assemblage, assembly, audience, collection, company, crowd, flock, following, gathering, get-together, group, host, laity, meet, meeting, multitude, muster, parish, public, sit-in, throng, turnout, churchgoers, confab, disciples, parishioners |
| Main Entry: | drove |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large gathering |
| Synonyms: | collection, company, crowd, crush, drive, flock, herd, horde, mob, multitude, pack, press, rout, run, swarm, throng |
| Main Entry: | flock |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | congregation |
| Synonyms: | army, assembly, bevy, brood, cloud, collection, colony, company, convoy, crowd, crush, drift, drove, flight, gathering, group, herd, host, legion, litter, mass, multitude, pack, progeny, rout, throng, gaggle, scores, skein |
| Main Entry: | flood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overwhelming flow, quantity |
| Synonyms: | abundance, bore, bounty, cataclysm, cataract, current, deluge, downpour, drift, eager, excess, flow, flux, glut, inundation, multitude, outpouring, overflow, plenty, pour, profusion, rush, spate, stream, superabundance, superfluity, surge, surplus, tide, torrent, wave, alluvion, drencher, freshet, niagara, outgushing, tsunami |
| Main Entry: | herd |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large group |
| Synonyms: | assemblage, bevy, brood, clan, collection, covey, crowd, crush, drift, drove, flight, flock, gathering, hoi polloi*, horde, lot, mass, mob, multitude, nest, pack, people, populace, press, rabble, school, swarm, throng, gaggle |
| Notes: | heard means detected or perceived by the sense of hearing while a herd is a group of wild animals of one species that remain together |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hoi polloi |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | common people |
| Synonyms: | Middle America, common people, infrastructure, masses, multitude, proletariat, rabble, rank and file, riffraff, commonality, commoners, great unwashed, huddled masses, plebians, the common people, the herd, the many, the masses, the multitude, the proletariat, the working class, vulgus |
| Main Entry: | horde |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | uncontrolled throng, pack |
| Synonyms: | band, crew, crowd, crush, drove, gang, gathering, host, jam, mob, multitude, press, push, squash, swarm, troop, turnout, everybody, wall-to-wall |
| Main Entry: | legion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mass, force of people |
| Synonyms: | army, body, brigade, cloud, company, division, drove, flock, group, horde, host, multitude, myriad, number, rout, throng, troop, phalanx, scores |
| Main Entry: | many |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abundance; a lot |
| Synonyms: | horde, mass, multitude, oodles*, plenty, scads*, throng, umpteen, gobs, heaps, jillion, large numbers, piles, scores, thousands, tons, whole slew |
| Antonyms: | few |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | masses |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | public, crowd |
| Synonyms: | common people, hoi polloi*, lower class, mob, multitude, proletariat, rabble, rank and file*, riffraff*, commonalty, great unwashed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mob |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large group of people |
| Synonyms: | assemblage, body, cabal, camp, canaille, cattle, circle, clan, class, clique, collection, company, coterie, crew, crowd, crush, drove, flock, gang, gathering, herd, horde, host, jam, lot, mass, masses, multitude, pack, populace, posse, press, proletariat, rabble, riffraff*, ring, riot, scum, set, swarm, throng, troop, commonality |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | myriad |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a lot |
| Synonyms: | army, flood, heap, horde, host, mint, mountain*, multitude, oodles*, swarm, loads, scores, slew, stacks, thousands |
| Antonyms: | little |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | people |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | human beings |
| Synonyms: | body politic, bourgeois, clan, common people, community, crowd, family, folk, folks, herd, hoi polloi*, horde, humanity, humankind, kin, masses, mob, multitude, nation, nationality, populace, population, proletariat, public, rabble, race, rank and file*, riffraff*, society, tribe, John/Jane Q. Public, bodies, cats, citizens, commonality, general public, heads, human race, humans, inhabitants, mortals, person in the street, persons, plebeians |
| Antonyms: | animals, plants |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | public |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | people of community; people interested in something |
| Synonyms: | audience, clientele, community, country, electorate, everyone, following, masses, mob, multitude, nation, people, populace, population, society, suite, bodies, buyers, citizens, commonalty, followers, heads, men and women, patrons, supporters, voters |
| Main Entry: | quantity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | number or amount |
| Synonyms: | abundance, aggregate, allotment, batch, body, budget, bulk, capacity, deal, expanse, extent, figure, greatness, length, load, lot, magnitude, mass, measure, multitude, part, pile, portion, profusion, quota, size, sum, total, variety, volume, amplitude |
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