multitude
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
multitude/ˈmʌltɪtjuːd/
▶noun
- 1 a large number of people or things.
- 2 (the multitude) the mass of ordinary people.
– origin ME: via OFr. from L. multitudo, from multus ‘many’.
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