Word Finder - multitude

definition

A great amount or number, often of people; abundance, myriad, profusion.

synonyms

• hantel, hantle

definition

The mass of ordinary people; the masses, the populace.

example

Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them.

synonyms

• crowd

This is a charity that hides a multitude of sins.

He built a stately house in the city, and adorned it with a multitude of paintings.

A multitude of dining options exists in and around the city.

There are a multitude of destinations to choose from.

Out there in the woods lay a multitude of plants she wanted to see, and no slithering reptile was going to stand in her way.

A multitude of theme parks are available for families, as well.

With a multitude of choices out there for a gamer to try, it may be a tough call.

In North Africa particularly, and in Khorasan the effect of Omar's proclamation was that a great multitude embraced Islam.

Darwin himself showed that different species in a genus, or varieties in a species, tended to show parallel variations, whilst comparative anatomy has made known a multitude of cases where allied series of animals or plants show successive stages of parallel but independent variations of important organs and functions.

Apart from the multitude of supposed fossil Algae described as " Fucoids " but usually not of Algal nature, and never presenting determinable characters, very little remains that can be referred to Palaeozoic Brown Algae.

Here scores of sponsoring vendors would be displaying and demonstrating their exotic wares to the multitude of visitors.

For example, a career as a visual artist usually involves being able to juggle a multitude of tasks.

During July and early August it is also awash with a multitude of Himalayan flowers, including the rare blue poppy.

P and me went blackberry picking earlier - she got the easy stuff I got the higher stuff - hence the multitude of scratches.

The multitude of creatures created a cacophony of calls that assaulted our ears.

This activates a protein kinase cascade, ultimately leading to a multitude of complex effects.

Solutions to complex, and often long-standing problems depend upon a multitude of resources, talents, and expertise.

Now the previously silent, oppressed masses ' can form a multitude capable of bringing about radical steps in the liberation of humankind.

These it stuffed whole into its great maw, revealing a multitude of ragged teeth.

The whole mural is surrounded by a multitude of colorful flags.

Day 13 We sail south, to the Antarctic, where the ship is again followed by a multitude of seabirds.

Humanists must colonize the new space along with the rest of the teeming multitude that throngs the Internet Fair.

Cliff Richard stared at the assembled multitude gathered for his forty-eighth Christmas concert.

Love is always by very nature hiding a multitude of sins.

The beach is made up of fine golden sand & boasts a multitude of facilities including a children's play area & creche.

Languages Spoken English American English encompasses a multitude of regional accents of differing degrees of intelligibility.

Although a brook may appear crystal-clear, it nevertheless transports more than enough organic matter to feed a multitude of insect inhabitants.

An immense multitude had been attracted thither with their wives and children.

You feel the fanning of his wings in the breath of this vast multitude.

But they are the mixed multitude who are all over the place.

Many were persuaded, including a great multitude of devout Greeks.

And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense.

BeatLab's Training mode has a multitude of patterns that will help you practice your snare drum rudiments.

In effect, a spectrogram is built up from a multitude of power spectra of short, overlapping time segments of the signal.

A regular session with a complementary therapist offers a whole multitude of benefits.

The course of things and their connexion is only thinkable by the assumption of a plurality of existences, the reality of which (as distinguished from our knowledge of them) can be conceived only as a multitude of relations.

A final reflection then teaches us that the nature of this universal and all-pervading substance can only be imagined by us as something analogous to our own mental life, where alone we experience the unity of a substance (which we call self) preserved in the multitude of its (mental) states.

Belisarius remained at Constantinople in tranquil retirement until 559, when an incursion of Bulgarian savages spread a panic through the metropolis, and men's eyes were once more turned towards the neglected veteran, who placed himself at the head of a mixed multitude of peasants and soldiers, and repelled the barbarians with his wonted courage and adroitness.

The princes were Italians; they shared-the common enthusiasms of the nation for art, learning, literature and science; they studied how to mask their tyranny with arts agreeable to the multitude.

The revolutionary terrorists took advantage of the situation to multiply outrages; popular agitation was fomented by a multitude of new journals preaching every kind of extravagant doctrine, now that the censor no The longer dared to act; in December the trouble "union culminated in a formidable rising in Moscow.

Each arc was measured with every precaution and a multitude of observations.

But Howe was eminent in the handling of a great multitude of ships, the enemy was awkward and unenterprising, and the operation was brilliantly carried out.

He continued for about sixteen years to disseminate his views by writing and teaching, without being directly interfered with by either his civil or ecclesiastical superiors, greatly to the scandal of the multitude and of the zealots, in whose eyes Berengar was 4 ` ille apostolus Satanae," and the academy of Tours the " Babylon nostri temporis."

The multitude of beggars in Bavaria had long been a public nuisance and danger.

The splendid west front, of tricuspidal form, enriched with a multitude of columns, statues and inlaid marbles, is said to have been begun by Giovanni Pisano, but really dates from after 1370; it was finished in 1380, and closely resembles that of Orvieto, which is earlier in date (begun in 1310).

She revived that faith; she consolidated her throne; she not only captivated the affections of the multitude, but won the respect of thoughtful men; and all this she achieved by methods which to her predecessors would have seemed impracticable - methods which it required no less shrewdness to discover than force of character and honesty of heart to adopt steadfastly.

His Life of Caesar (1879), a glorification of imperialism, betrays an imperfect acquaintance with Roman politics and the life of Cicero; and of his two pleasant books of travel, The English in the West Indies (1888) shows that he made little effort to master his subject, and Oceana (1886), the record of a tour in Australia and New Zealand, among a multitude of other blunders, notes the prosperity of the working-classes in Adelaide at the date of his visit, when, in fact, owing to a failure in the wheatcrop, hundreds were then living on charity.

Although ancestor-worship, or, more broadly, the cult of the dead, has in many cases overshadowed other cults or even extinguished them, we have no warrant, even in these cases, for asserting its priority, but rather the reverse; not only so, but in the majority of cases the pantheon is made up by a multitude of spirits in human, sometimes in animal form, which bear no signs of ever having been incarnate; sun gods and moon goddesses, gods of fire, wind and water, gods of the sea, and above all gods of the sky, show no signs of having been ghost gods at any period in their history.

In 1787 all the states but three had bicameral legislatures-it was therefore natural that the new national government should follow this example, not to add that the division into two branches seems calculated to reduce the chances of reckless haste, and to increase the chances of finding wisdom in a multitude of counsellors.

Nevertheless these animals exist in extraordinary quantities, so that at certain seasons and under certain conditions the surface of the sea seems almost stiff with the incredible multitude of organisms which pervade it.