multitude
/ˈmʌltəˌt(j)ud/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.59 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Do I contradict myself? / Very well then I contradict myself, / (I am large, I contain multitudes.)"
- "A torrential rain poured down from the floodgates of the angry heavens upon the bared heads of the assembled multitude which numbered at the lowest computation five hundred thousand persons."
- "On the other hand, to arrive after dusk, when the multitude of garish little public-houses are lit up, giving glimpses of crowded jostling bars and taprooms, is an introduction to a fine city well calculated to affect even the most nonchalant."
- "We found Pop Glossop in his pantry polishing silver, and put in our order. He seemed a little surprised at the inrush of such a multitude, but on learning that our tongues were hanging out obliged with a bottle of the best […]"
- "Ever since El Martinez started asking to be called by the gender-neutral pronouns “they/them” in the ninth grade, they have fielded skepticism in a variety of forms and from a multitude of sources about what it means to identify as nonbinary."
- "Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil"
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈmʌltəˌt(j)ud/
- British English: /ˈmʌltɪtjuːd/
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
contain multitudes
of multitude