multitude

Roget category 102

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.5. Number
›› 1.5.3. Indeterminate number

#102. Multitude

noun

multitude — numerous etc. adj. — numerosity, numerality — multiplicity — profusion etc. (plenty) 639 — legion, host — great number, large number, round number, enormous number — a quantity, numbers, array, sight, army, sea, galaxy — scores, peck, bushel, shoal, swarm, draught, bevy, cloud, flock, herd, drove, flight, covey, hive, brood, litter, farrow, fry, nest — crowd etc. (assemblage) 72 — lots — all in the world and his wife.
[Increase of number] greater number, majority — multiplication, multiple.

verb

be numerous etc. adj. — swarm with, teem with, creep with — crowd, swarm, come thick upon — outnumber, multiply — people — swarm like locusts, swarm like bees.

adjective

many, several, sundry, divers, various, not a few — Briarean — a hundred, a thousand, a myriad, a million, a quadrillion, a nonillion, a thousand and one — some ten or a dozen, some forty or fifty &c. — half a dozen, half a hundred &c. — very many, full many, ever so many — numerous — numerose^† — profuse, in profusion — manifold, multiplied, multitudinous, multiple, multinominal, teeming, populous, peopled, crowded, thick, studded — galore.
thick coming, many more, more than one can tell, a world of — no end of, no end to — cum multis aliis [Lat.] — thick as hops, thick as hail — plenty as blackberries — numerous as the stars in the firmament, numerous as the sands on the seashore, numerous as the hairs on the head — and what not, and heaven knows what — endless etc. (infinite) 105.

phrase

their name is 'legion' —" acervatim [Lat.] — en foule [Fr.] — many-headed multitude" [Sidney]; numerous as glittering gems of morning numerous as glittering gems of morning dew" [Young]; vel prece vel pretio [Lat.].

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