multitude
nounEtymology
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.
- inherited from multitude
Definitions
A great amount or number, often of people
A great amount or number, often of people; abundance, myriad, profusion.
- Do I contradict myself? / Very well then I contradict myself, / (I am large, I contain multitudes.)
- 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.
The mass of ordinary people
The mass of ordinary people; the masses, the populace.
- Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil
- Along with its natural protectors and guardians, learning will be caſt into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a ſwiniſh multitude.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at multitude. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at multitude. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at multitude
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA