Definition of Multitude

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Multitude

A great number of persons collected together; a numerous collection of persons; a crowd; an assembly.

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.

The state of being many; numerousness.

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Multitude Quotations

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
Mark Twain

Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
Mae West

Charity creates a multitude of sins.
Oscar Wilde

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.
Audrey Hepburn

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire

In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
Immanuel Kant

Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.
Andrew Jackson

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
William Wordsworth

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
Edmund Burke

Multitude Translations

multitude in Afrikaans is skare, stapel, massa, menigte
multitude in Dutch is massa, drom, hoop, menigte, boel
multitude in Finnish is kasa
multitude in French is amas, multitude, foule
multitude in German is Menge, Vielzahl, Menge
multitude in Latin is turba, populus

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