multitudes

NOUN

large group

Synonyms

STRONGEST

horde legion myriad slew throng

STRONG

aggregation army assemblage assembly collection commonalty concourse congregation crowd crush drove heap herd host infinitude infinity jam loads lot lots majority mass mob much number numbers ocean oodles people plenitude plurality populace proletariat public push quantity scores sea swarm turnout

WEAK

great number

Antonyms

STRONG

little minority

WEAK

handful portion single zero

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multitudes

No single category can contain the Whitmanesque multitudes jockeying for position inside us.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

What’s more, you are also donating to a food bank to put food into the backpacks of multitudes of children.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 20, 2026

Even so expansive an idea as the “Abrahamic faiths”—Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Mormonism—fails to capture, to borrow Walt Whitman’s formulation, the religious multitudes that America contains.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026

Among the many tasks: managing ever-multiplying multitudes of cattle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2026

I talked enough and stole enough and sold enough to buy a steamship ticket, and I joined the multitudes going to America.

From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli

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