What does Multitude mean?
Definitions for Multitude
ˈmʌl tɪˌtud, -ˌtyudmul·ti·tude
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Multitude.
Princeton's WordNet
battalion, large number, multitude, plurality, packnoun
a large indefinite number
"a battalion of ants"; "a multitude of TV antennas"; "a plurality of religions"
multitude, throng, concoursenoun
a large gathering of people
multitude, masses, mass, hoi polloi, people, the great unwashednoun
the common people generally
"separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people"
Wiktionary
multitudenoun
A great amount or number, often of people.
multitudenoun
The mass of ordinary people; the populous or the masses
Etymology: From multitude, multitude, and their source, multitudo.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
MULTITUDEnoun
Etymology: multitude, Fr. multitudo, Lat.
It is impossible that any multitude can be actually infinite, or so great that there cannot be a greater. Matthew Hale.
It is a fault in a multitude of preachers, that they utterly neglect method in their harangues. Isaac Watts.
He the vast hissing multitude admires. Addison.
Wikipedia
Multitude
Multitude is a term for a group of people who cannot be classed under any other distinct category, except for their shared fact of existence. Though its use dates back to antiquity, the term first entered into the lexicon of political philosophy when it was used by figures like Machiavelli, Hobbes, and most notably, Spinoza. The multitude is a concept of a population that has not entered into a social contract with a sovereign political body, such that individuals retain the capacity for political self-determination. A multitude typically is classified as a quantity exceeding 100. For Hobbes the multitude was a rabble that needed to enact a social contract with a monarch, thus turning them from a multitude into a people. For Machiavelli and Spinoza both, the role of the multitude vacillates between admiration and contempt. Recently the term has returned to prominence as a new model of resistance against global systems of power as described by political theorists Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri in their international best-seller Empire (2000) and expanded upon in their Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire (2004). Other theorists recently began to use the term include political thinkers associated with autonomist Marxism and its sequelae, including Sylvère Lotringer, Paolo Virno, and thinkers connected with the eponymous review Multitudes.
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multitude
A multitude refers to a large number of people, items, or things. It can also refer to the mass or the general public.
Webster Dictionary
Multitudenoun
a great number of persons collected together; a numerous collection of persons; a crowd; an assembly
Multitudenoun
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
Multitudenoun
the state of being many; numerousness
Wikidata
Multitude
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 theorists Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri in their international best-seller Empire and expanded upon in their Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire. Other theorists recently to use the term include political thinkers associated with Autonomist Marxism and its sequelae, including Sylvère Lotringer, Paolo Virno, and thinkers connected with the eponymous review Multitudes.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Multitude
mul′ti-tūd, n. the state of being many: a great number of individuals: a crowd: the vulgar or common people.—adjs. Multitud′inary (rare); Multitud′inous, consisting of, or having the appearance of, a multitude.—adv. Multitud′inously.—n. Multitud′inousness, the state or quality of being multitudinous. [Fr.,—L. multitudo—multus, many.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Multitude in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Multitude in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of Multitude in a Sentence
Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new.
Certainly a great place for anyone that believes in magic and loves dealing with children aged one to ninety, disney doesn’t have a monopoly on seasonal and part-time employment. Football and baseball stadiums have a multitude of part-time jobs available such as ticket takers, ushers, driving players and staff to and from airports and clerical work. What better way to earn additional income than to be in an environment that one might love?
By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you.
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- كثرةArabic
- ramatCatalan, Valencian
- Menge, VielzahlGerman
- μάζα, πλήθοςGreek
- amasoEsperanto
- multitudSpanish
- multitudeFrench
- mòr-sluaghScottish Gaelic
- շատություն, բազմություն, ամբոխArmenian
- רבHebrew
- tini ngerongero, mātinitini, ngero, nuipuku, ngerongeroMāori
- mangfoldNorwegian
- multidão, massa, povoPortuguese
- ма́сса, мно́жествоRussian
- pȗk, màsa, mnòštvo, gòmila, svjètinaSerbo-Croatian
- అధిక మొత్తము, జనబాహుళ్యముTelugu
- milletTurkish
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