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multitude

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Synonyms and Antonyms of multitude

1 a great number of persons or creatures massed together

awed by the multitude of stars in the night sky

Synonyms of multitude

army, bike [chiefly Scottish], cram, crowd, crush, drove, flock, herd, horde, host, legion, mass, mob, press, rout, scrum, swarm, throng

Words Related to multitude

masses, millions, rabble, rabblement, riffraff

heap, mountain, pile

2 the body of the community as contrasted with the elite

the nation's idle rich frolicked while the multitude starved

Synonyms of multitude

commoners, commons, crowd, herd, hoi polloi, mass, millions, mob, people, plebeians, plebs, populace, public, rank and file

Words Related to multitude

cattle, proletariat, rabble, rabblement, ragtag and bobtail, riffraff, rout, scum, tag, rag, and bobtail (or tagrag and bobtail), trash, unwashed

bourgeoisie, middle class

Near Antonyms of multitude

gentility, gentlefolk (also gentlefolks), gentry, haute monde, nobility, patriciate, peerage, quality, royalty, society

Antonyms of multitude

A-list, aristocracy, best, choice, corps d'elite, cream, elect, elite, fat, flower, pick, pink, pride, upper crust

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