| 1. a crowd
1) a casual collection of people 1a1. a multitude of men who have flocked together in some place 1a2. a throng 2) a multitude 1b1. the common people, as opposed to the rulers and leading men 1b2. with contempt: the ignorant multitude, the populace 3) a multitude 1c1. the multitudes, seems to denote troops of people gathered together without order |