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• paljous• paljon• ihmislauma• joukko• väkijoukko• rahvas• kasaantuma• kansanpaljous• määrä* * *(a great number or crowd: a multitude of reasons; multitudes of people.) paljous, lukuisa joukko
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Multitude — Mul ti*tude, 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. [1913 Webster] But when he saw the… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire — … Wikipedia
multitude — multitude, army, host, legion mean, both in the singular and plural, a very large number of persons or things. They do not (as do the words compared at CROWD) necessarily imply assemblage, but all of them can be used with that implication.… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
Multitude — is a political term first used by Machiavelli and reiterated by Spinoza. Recently the term has returned to prominence because of its conceptualization as a new model of resistance against the global capitalist system as described by political… … Wikipedia
multitude — ► NOUN 1) a large number of people or things. 2) (the multitude) the mass of ordinary people. ORIGIN Latin multitudo, from multus many … English terms dictionary
multitude — (n.) early 14c., from O.Fr. multitude (12c.) and directly from L. multitudinem (nom. multitudo) a great number, a crowd; the crowd, the common people, from multus many, much (see MULTI (Cf. multi )) + suffix tudo (see TUDE (Cf. tude)). Related:… … Etymology dictionary
people — I noun citizenry, commonality, community, community at large, country, cultures, general public, humanity, inhabitants, multitude, nation, national group, nationality, persons, populace, population, race, society, state II index community, family … Law dictionary
multitude — [n] large group aggregation, army, assemblage, assembly, collection, commonalty, concourse, congregation, crowd, crush, drove, great number, heap, herd, horde, host, infinitude, infinity, jam*, legion, loads, lot, lots*, majority, mass, mob, much … New thesaurus
people — [n] human beings bodies, body politic*, bourgeois, cats*, citizens, clan, commonality, common people, community, crowd, family, folk, folks, general public, heads*, herd, hoi polloi*, horde, humanity, humankind, human race, humans, inhabitants,… … New thesaurus
multitude — [[t]mʌ̱ltɪtjuːd, AM tuːd[/t]] multitudes 1) QUANT: QUANT of pl n A multitude of things or people is a very large number of them. There are a multitude of small quiet roads to cycle along... Addiction to drugs can bring a multitude of other… … English dictionary
multitude — mul|ti|tude [ˈmʌltıtju:d US tu:d] n [Date: 1300 1400; : French; Origin: Latin multitudo, from multus; MULTI ] 1.) a multitude of sb/sth formal or literary a very large number of people or things ▪ I had never seen such a multitude of stars before … Dictionary of contemporary English