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troop/troops
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group, often military |
| Synonyms: | armed forces, army, assemblage, assembly, band, body, bunch, collection, combatants, company, contingent, corps, crew, crowd, delegation, drove, fighting forces, flock, forces, gang, gathering, herd, horde, host, legion, military, multitude, number, outfit, pack, party, personnel, service personnel, soldiers, soldiery, squad, swarm, team, throng, troopers, troupe, unit |
| Main Entry: | ruck |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | crowd |
| Synonyms: | army, array, blowout, bunch, cattle, circle, clique, cloud, cluster, company, concourse, confluence, conflux, congeries, congregation, coterie, crew, crush, deluge*, drove, faction, flock, flood*, gaggle, great unwashed, group, herd, horde, host, jam*, legion, lot, mass, masses, meet, mob, multitude, muster*, organization, pack, party, people, posse, press, rabble, rank and file, score, scores, sellout, set, stream, surge, swarm, throng, troupe, tumult |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | gathering |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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accumulable, aggregable, agminate, all of a heap, allemang, as thick as hops, assembled, chockablock, closely packed, coacervate, crowded to suffocation, cumulative, dense, fasciculated, pily, populous, ramé, serried, styptic, swarming, teeming
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| Concept: | Multitude. |
| Category: | 3. Indeterminate Number |
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-nouns
multitude; numerous; numerosity, numerality; multiplicity; profusion (plenty); 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 (assemblage); lots; all in the world and his wife., [Increase of number] greater number, majority; multiplication, multiple.
-verbs
be numerous; swarm with, teem with, creep with; crowd, swarm, come thick upon; outnumber, multiply; people; swarm like locusts, swarm like bees.
-adjectives
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; half a dozen, half a hundred; 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; 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 (infinite).
-phrases
their name is "legion"; acervatim; en foule; "many-headed multitude" [Sidney]; "numerous as glittering gems of morning dew" [Young]; vel
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| Antonyms: | fewness |
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| Concept: | Number. |
| Category: | 1. NUMBER, IN THE ABSTRACT |
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-nouns
number, symbol, numeral, figure, cipher, digit, integer; counter; round number; formula; function; series., sum, difference, complement, subtrahend; product; multiplicand, multiplier, multiplicator; coefficient, multiple; dividend, divisor, factor, quotient, submultiple, fraction; mixed number, complex number, complex conjugate; numerator, denominator; decimal, circulating decimal, repetend; common measure, aliquot part; prime number; reciprocal; totient., permutation, combination, variation; election., ratio, proportion, progression; arithmetical progression, geometrical progression, harmonical progression; percentage., figurate numbers, pyramidal numbers, polygonal numbers., power, root, exponent, index, logarithm, antilogarithm; modulus., differential, integral, fluxion, fluent.
-adjectives
numeral, complementary, divisible, aliquot, reciprocal, prime, relatively prime, fractional, decimal, figurate, incommensurable., proportional, exponential, logarithmic, logometric, differential, fluxional, integral, totitive., positive, negative; rational, irrational; surd, radical, real; complex, imaginary; finite; infinite; impossible.
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