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multitude

UK/ˈmʌltɪtjuːd/US/ˈmʌltəˌt(j)ud/
nounB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,187 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: multitudes

A multitude is a very great number of people or things. A multitude of reasons.

It takes of after it and is slightly formal or biblical in tone. To cover a multitude of sins is the phrase most people meet the word in.

Phidev74 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Definitions of multitude

  1. 1nounmultitudeA very great number of people or things.B2+

    “There was a multitude of small faults and no single large one.”

multitude is a number.

Where it comes from

Latin multitudo comes from multus, many.

  1. Latin

    multitūdō — great amount or number of people or things

  2. Old French

    multitude — crowd of people; diversity, wide range

  3. Middle English

    multitude

  4. English, today

    multitude

Built from

  • multytude · Middle English — (great) amount or number of people or things; multitudinous
  • multus · Latin — many; much

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. The English word is analysable as multi- + -itude.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

multitude in the wild

  • Arenas are usually designed to accommodate a multitude of spectators.

    Arena

  • Rock based music is undergoing a renaissance with a multitude of local bands playing original material and covers.

    Music of Gibraltar

  • In philosophy, multitude refers to a collective of people defined by common mode of existence, not shared identity.

    Multitude (philosophy)

  • Bhiwani is known as Little Cuba in India due to the multitude of boxers hailing from the region.

    Bhiwani Boxing Club

  • The model itself is not limited to venture financing and can be applied across a multitude of business sectors wherein investments are made on per-deal basis.

    Pledge fund

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.