multitude

Meaning

1. A great amount or number, often of people; abundance, myriad, profusion.
2. The mass of ordinary people; the masses, the populace.

Synonyms

crowd

collection

heap

mass

flock

throng

group

quantity

assemblage

abundance

herd

accumulation

pile

assembly

many

masses

company

swarm

large number

mob

host

people

🧑‍🤝‍🧑

plenty

plurality

number

🔢

class

great number

troop

pack

battalion

shoal

ruck

large quantity

concourse

aggregation

gathering

wealth

body

aggregate

lot

a lot

crush

profusion

populace

set

combination

horde

hoi polloi

heaps

bunch

Translations

multitud

multitude

menigte

multidão

Menge

moltitudine

turba

massa

foule

Vielzahl

folla

drom

multitudo

boel

multitud

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈmʌltɪtjuːd/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: multitude

In summary

From Middle English multitude, multitud, multytude (“(great) amount or number of people or things; multitudinous”), borrowed from Old French multitude (“crowd of people; diversity, wide range”), or directly from its etymon Latin multitūdō (“great amount or number of people or things”), from multus (“many; much”) + -tūdō (suffix forming abstract nouns indicating a state or condition). The English word is analysable as multi- + -itude.