Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Multitude

Nouns
  • multitude
  • numerous etc. adj.
  • numerosity, numerality
  • multiplicity
  • profusion etc. (plenty) Sufficiency
  • 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) Assemblage
  • lots
  • all in the world and his wife. [Increase of number] greater number, majority
  • multiplication, multiple.
Verbs
  • be numerous etc. adj.
  • 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 etc.
  • half a dozen, half a hundred etc.
  • 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
  • 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) Infinity.
Phrases
  • their name is 'legion'
  • many-headed multitude" [Sidney]
  • numerous as glittering gems of morning numerous as glittering gems of morning dew" [Young]