Word Meanings - MULTITUDE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: MULTITUDE

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 uttery 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MULTITUDE)

• Army
• Troops
• soldiery
• legion
• soldiers
• military
• phalanx
• host
• multitude
• Assembly
• Meeting
• concourse
• assemblage
• group
• synod
• conclave
• conference
• convocation
• unison
• company
• congregation
• collection
• crowd
• gathering
• convention
• aggregate
• Host
• Multitude
• number
• army
• Multiplication
• Multiplicity
• plurality
• multitudinousness
• multifariousness
• repetition
• reiter ation
• reproduction
• augmentation
• swarming
• teeming
• Plurality
• numerousness
• profusion

Related words: (words related to MULTITUDE)

• MEETER
  One who meets.
• TROOPSHIP
  A vessel built or fitted for the conveyance of troops; a transport.
• CONFERENCE
  A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters. 6. A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are. Conference meeting,
• CONVENTIONALLY
  In a conventional manner.
• NUMBERFUL
  Numerous.
• UNISONANCE
  Accordance of sounds; unison.
• CONVENTIONAL
  1. Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated. Conventional services reserved by tenures upon grants, made out of the crown or knights' service. Sir M. Hale. 2. Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by
• CONVENTIONALISM
  The principles or practice of conventionalizing. See Conventionalize, v. t. (more info) 1. That which is received or established by convention or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage.
• REITERATE
  To repeat again and again; to say or do repeatedly; sometimes, to repeat. That with reiterated crimes he might Heap on himself damnation. Milton. You never spoke what did become you less Than this; which to reiterate were sin. Shak. Syn.
• CROWD
  1. To push, to press, to shove. Chaucer. 2. To press or drive together; to mass together. "Crowd us and crush us." Shak. 3. To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity. The balconies and verandas
• CONVOCATIONIST
  An advocate or defender of convocation.
• CONVENTIONIST
  One who enters into a convention, covenant, or contract.
• SWARM
  To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin. At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for those who could swarm up and seize it. W. Coxe.
• CONGREGATIONALISM
  1. That system of church organization which vests all ecclesiastical power in the assembled brotherhood of each local church. 2. The faith and polity of the Congregational churches, taken collectively. Note: In this sense Congregationalism is the
• ASSEMBLY
  A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble. Note: In some of the United States, the legislature, or the popular branch of it, is called the Assembly, or the General Assembly. In the Presbyterian Church, the General
• TEEMER
  One who teems, or brings forth.
• SYNODIC; SYNODICAL
  Of or pertaining to a synod; transacted in, or authorized by, a synod; as, synodical proceedings or forms. "A synodical epistle." Bp. Stillingfleet.
• AUGMENTATION
  A additional charge to a coat of arms, given as a mark of honor. Cussans. (more info) 1. The act or process of augmenting, or making larger, by addition, expansion, or dilation; increase. 2. The state of being augmented; enlargement. 3. The thing
• LEGIONARY
  Belonging to a legion; consisting of a legion or legions, or of an indefinitely great number; as, legionary soldiers; a legionary force. "The legionary body of error." Sir T. Browne.
• GATHERER
  An attachment for making gathers in the cloth. (more info) 1. One who gathers or collects.
• ATTENUATION
  1. The act or process of making slender, or the state of being slender; emaciation. 2. The act of attenuating; the act of making thin or less dense, or of rarefying, as fluids or gases. 3. The process of weakening in intensity; diminution
• COLLINEATION
  The act of aiming at, or directing in a line with, a fixed object. Johnson.
• INDIGNATION
  1. The feeling excited by that which is unworthy, base, or disgraceful; anger mingled with contempt, disgust, or abhorrence. Shak. Indignation expresses a strong and elevated disapprobation of mind, which is also inspired by something flagitious
• DISPLANTATION
  The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
• TESTIFICATION
  The act of testifying, or giving testimony or evidence; as, a direct testification of our homage to God. South.
• MIGRATION
  The act of migrating.
• FALCATION
  The state of being falcate; a bend in the form of a sickle. Sir T. Browne.
• FLUXATION
  The act of fluxing.
• NATATION
  The act of floating on the water; swimming. Sir T. Browne.
• SUMMATION
  The act of summing, or forming a sum, or total amount; also, an aggregate. Of this series no summation is possible to a finite intellect. De Quincey.
• DILUCIDATION
  The act of making clear. Boyle.
• COLONIZATION
  Tha act of colonizing, or the state of being colonized; the formation of a colony or colonies. The wide continent of America invited colonization. Bancroft.
• ELICITATION
  The act of eliciting. Abp. Bramhall.
• FLOSSIFICATION
  A flowering; florification. Craig.
• GRAVIDATION
  Gravidity.
• VARIOLATION
  Inoculation with smallpox.
• FACILITATION
  The act of facilitating or making easy.
• ENDENIZATION
  The act of naturalizing.