multitude
A great many
A multitude is a large number of people or things: A multitude of factors contributed to the collapse.
The word often suggests an uncountable mass rather than a specific quantity.
The multitude can refer to ordinary people as a collective—the masses, the crowd: Politicians who claim to speak for the multitude.
Dense pressing crowd
- hordeDisorganized, overwhelming crowd
- mobDisorderly, aggressive crowd
- gatheringCollection of people meeting
- assemblyConstructing from components
congregation · mass · swarm · legion · host · sea · throng · flock
Extravagant amount present
- plethoraExcessive surplus
- wealthAbundance of valuable resources
- bountyReward for capture
- cornucopiaAbundance symbol, horn-shaped
copiousness · plentifulness · richness · amplitude · plenty · surfeit · lavishness · overabundance
State of varied elements
- assortmentMixed collection of things
- arrayOrdered collection or display
- spectrumContinuous range of values
- rangeExtent of variation
medley · mélange · miscellany · mosaic · patchwork · potpourri · heterogeneity · composite
Bulk or populace
commonfolk · rank-and-file · proletariat · working-class · grassroots · populace · electorate · demos
throng
Dense pressing crowd
- hordeDisorganized, overwhelming crowd
- mobDisorderly, aggressive crowd
- gatheringCollection of people meeting
assembly · congregation · mass · swarm · legion · host · sea · throng · flock · pack
profusion
Extravagant amount present
cornucopia · copiousness · plentifulness · richness · amplitude · plenty · surfeit · lavishness · overabundance · glut
diversity
State of varied elements
- assortmentMixed collection of things
- arrayOrdered collection or display
- spectrumContinuous range of values
range · medley · mélange · miscellany · mosaic · patchwork · potpourri · heterogeneity · composite · amalgam
masses
Bulk or populace
citizenry · commonfolk · rank-and-file · proletariat · working-class · grassroots · populace · electorate · demos
bees
Winged pollinators
buzzing · hive · colony · cloud · murmuration · infestation · plague · nest · apiary · migration
- massmass, masses, bulk, body mass, atomic mass
- accumulationaccumulation, heap, pile, stack, hoard
- counting wordscount, tally, total, sum, number
- crowdscrowd, horde, mob, throng, masses
- excessexcess, too much, excessive, excessiveness, overabundance
- populacethe masses, common folk, ordinary people, general public, hoi polloi
multitudeelite
Superior select group
aristocracy · nobility · gentry · upper crust · patriciate
- contain multitudesEncompass contradictory qualities within oneself
- containing multitudesHaving internal contradictions
- feeding the multitudeGiving food to many