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

Example sentences :

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

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