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Antonyms for multitude
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : muhl-ti-tood, -tyood |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈmʌl tɪˌtud, -ˌtyud |
Definition of multitude
Origin :- early 14c., from Old French multitude (12c.) and directly from Latin multitudinem (nominative multitudo) "a great number, a crowd; the crowd, the common people," from multus "many, much" (see multi-) + suffix -tudo (see -tude). Related: Multitudes.
- noun large group
- I am not answerable for offences which have their origin in the eyes of the multitude.
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- I feel the breath of life taken away from me by the multitude.
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- Encouraged by the shouts of the multitude, who were crying to Cleon, "Why don't you go and do it?"
- Extract from : « Stories from Thucydides » by H. L. Havell
- But now there was a sudden movement throughout the multitude.
- Extract from : « An Old Woman's Tale » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- He uttereth his voice, and there is a noise of a multitude of waters in the heavens.
- Extract from : « Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. I » by Francis Augustus Cox
- "In a multitude of counsellors there is wisdom," saith the proverb.
- Extract from : « The Devil's Dictionary » by Ambrose Bierce
- Also there was a flavor of farm-yard in my nostrils and the shouting of a multitude in my ears.
- Extract from : « American Notes » by Rudyard Kipling
- But, to return to the multitude,—you say that in all times they are left the same.
- Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- That black stick with white buttons is not the creation of the soul of a multitude.
- Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton
- I stooped and kissed her hand and then fled into the multitude.
- Extract from : « City of Endless Night » by Milo Hastings
Synonyms for multitude
- aggregation
- army
- assemblage
- assembly
- collection
- commonalty
- concourse
- congregation
- crowd
- crush
- drove
- great number
- heap
- herd
- horde
- host
- infinitude
- infinity
- jam
- legion
- loads
- lot
- lots
- majority
- mass
- mob
- much
- myriad
- number
- numbers
- ocean
- oodles
- people
- plenitude
- plurality
- populace
- proletariat
- public
- push
- quantity
- scores
- sea
- slew
- swarm
- throng
- turnout
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