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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Mul·ti·tude n.
 1. A great number of persons collected together; a numerous collection of persons; a crowd; an assembly.
    But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them.   --Matt. ix. 36.
 2. 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.
    It is a fault in a multitude of preachers, that they utterly neglect method in their harangues.   --I. Watts.
 A multitude of flowers
 As countless as the stars on high.   --Longfellow.
 3. The state of being many; numerousness.
    They came as grasshoppers for multitude.   --Judg. vi. 5.
 The multitude, the populace; the mass of men.
 Syn: -- Throng; crowd; assembly; assemblage; commonalty; swarm; populace; vulgar. See Throng.
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