Multitude
Nouns
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multitude
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numerous etc. adj.
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numerosity, numerality
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multiplicity
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profusion etc. (plenty) Sufficiency
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legion, host
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great number, large number, round number, enormous number
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a quantity, numbers, array, sight, army, sea, galaxy
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scores, peck, bushel, shoal, swarm, draught, bevy, cloud, flock, herd, drove, flight, covey, hive, brood, litter, farrow, fry, nest
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crowd etc. (assemblage) Assemblage
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lots
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all in the world and his wife. [Increase of number] greater number, majority
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multiplication, multiple.
Verbs
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be numerous etc. adj.
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swarm with, teem with, creep with
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crowd, swarm, come thick upon
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outnumber, multiply
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people
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swarm like locusts, swarm like bees.
Adjectives
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many, several, sundry, divers, various, not a few
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Briarean
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a hundred, a thousand, a myriad, a million, a quadrillion, a nonillion, a thousand and one
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some ten or a dozen, some forty or fifty etc.
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half a dozen, half a hundred etc.
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very many, full many, ever so many
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numerous
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numerose
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profuse, in profusion
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manifold, multiplied, multitudinous, multiple, multinominal, teeming, populous, peopled, crowded, thick, studded
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galore. thick coming, many more, more than one can tell, a world of
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no end of, no end to
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thick as hops, thick as hail
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plenty as blackberries
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numerous as the stars in the firmament, numerous as the sands on the seashore, numerous as the hairs on the head
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and what not, and heaven knows what
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endless etc. (infinite) Infinity.
Phrases
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their name is 'legion'
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many-headed multitude" [Sidney]
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numerous as glittering gems of morning numerous as glittering gems of morning dew" [Young]