Webster
✕

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Multitude

Mul′ti·tude (mŭl′tĭ·tūd), 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.

But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them. Matt. ix. 36.

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.

It is a fault in a multitude of preachers, that they utterly neglect method in their harangues. I. Watts.

A multitude of flowers As countless as the stars on high. Longfellow.

3. The state of being many; numerousness.

They came as grasshoppers for multitude. Judg. vi. 5.

The multitude, the populace; the mass of men.

Syn. — Throng; crowd; assembly; assemblage; commonalty; swarm; populace; vulgar. See Throng.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty.