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multitude 音标拼音: [m'ʌltət,ud] [m'ʌltətj,ud] n. 许多,大量;群众,大众 许多,大量;群众,大众 multitude n 1: a large indefinite number; "a battalion of ants"; "a multitude of TV antennas"; "a plurality of religions" [synonym: {battalion}, {large number}, {multitude}, {plurality}, {pack}] 2: a large gathering of people [synonym: {multitude}, {throng}, {concourse}] 3: the common people generally; "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people" [synonym: {multitude}, {masses}, {mass}, {hoi polloi}, {people}, {the great unwashed}] Multitude \Mul"ti*tude\, n. [F. multitude, L. multitudo, multitudinis, fr. multus much, many; of unknown origin.] 1. A great number of persons collected together; a numerous collection of persons; a crowd; an assembly. [1913 Webster] But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them. --Matt. ix. 36. [1913 Webster] 2. A great number of persons or things, regarded collectively; as, the book will be read by a multitude of people; the multitude of stars; a multitude of cares. [1913 Webster] It is a fault in a multitude of preachers, that they utterly neglect method in their harangues. --I. Watts. [1913 Webster] A multitude of flowers As countless as the stars on high. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster] 3. The state of being many; numerousness. [1913 Webster] They came as grasshoppers for multitude. --Judg. vi. 5. [1913 Webster] {The multitude}, the populace; the mass of men. [1913 Webster] Syn: Throng; crowd; assembly; assemblage; commonalty; swarm; populace; vulgar. See {Throng}. [1913 Webster] 90 Moby Thesaurus words for "multitude": a mass of, a world of, abundance, acres, army, bags, barrels, bevy, bunch, bushel, cloud, cluster, clutter, cohue, copiousness, countlessness, covey, crowd, crush, deluge, flight, flock, flocks, flood, galaxy, hail, heap, hive, horde, host, ignobile vulgus, jam, large amount, legion, load, lots, many, many-headed multitude, mass, masses of, mob, mobile vulgus, mountain, much, muchness, nest, numbers, numerousness, ocean, oceans, pack, panoply, peck, plenitude, plenty, plurality, press, profusion, quantities, quantity, quite a few, rabble, rout, ruck, scores, sea, shoal, spate, superabundance, superfluity, swarm, the common herd, the crowd, the great unnumbered, the great unwashed, the herd, the hoi polloi, the horde, the majority, the many, the masses, the mob, the multitude, throng, tidy sum, tons, volume, world, worlds, worlds of MULTITUDE. The meaning of this word is not very certain. By some it is said that to make a multitude there must be ten persons at least, while others contend that the law has not fixed any number. Co. Litt. 257.
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