multitude
Plural: multitudes
Noun
- a large indefinite number
- "a multitude of TV antennas"
- a large gathering of people
- the common people generally
- A great amount or number, often of people; abundance, myriad, profusion.
- The mass of ordinary people; the masses, the populace.
Origin / Etymology
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.
Synonyms
battalion, concourse, hoi polloi, large number, mass, masses, pack, people, plurality, the great unwashed, throng, crowd, hantel, hantle
Scrabble Score: 12
multitude: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordmultitude: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
multitude: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary