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  1. noun The condition or quality of being numerous.
  2. noun A very great number.
  3. noun The masses; the populace: the concerns of the multitude.
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  • Mr. Brooks, who was in the White House during the delivery of this address, gives the following glimpses behind the scenes: “As Lincoln spoke, the multitude was as silent as if the court-yard had been deserted. —  The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln
  • No permit was given and no mass meeting held, but the multitude was there and when the police began to disperse it the people who were neither Socialists nor unemployed resented being driven off the streets. —  From the Bottom Up
  • The very reason that the multitude was there was to receive The Word; to be taught. —  The Hidden Manna: Scriptural Facts from Jesus' Own Word in Testament by George W. Demers
  • The physical example set in front of the multitude was also a call to that duty. —  The Hidden Manna: Scriptural Facts from Jesus' Own Word in Testament by George W. Demers
  • But a multitude was all about and I did not hear them. —  The Gospel according to the Son
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin multitūdō, from multus, many; see mel-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from French multitude = Spanish multitud = Portuguese multitude, multidão = Italian multitudine, moltitudine, from Latin multitudo (-din-), a great number, a multitude, a crowd, in grammar the plural number, from multus, Old Latin moltus, much, many, apparently orig. a past participle (cf. altus, high, deep, orig. past participle of alere, nourish, grow: see altitude, old).
 

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