multitude

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1. host, mass, crowd, throng, crush, Sl. mess, horde; drove, bevy, herd, pack, flock, swarm, gaggle, school, shoal; army, legion, tribe, band, team, troop, squad, company, group, party, body; assemblage, congregation, aggregation, array, accumulation, assortment; bunch, gang, crew, Inf. caboodle; concentration, concourse, confluence, conflux, convergence.

2. lots, a lot, Inf. raft, Sl. scads, Sl. a scad, piles, a pile, Inf. heaps, Inf. a heap, lashings; bags of, Inf. gobs of, bags, barrels, tons, a bunch, a bushel and a peck; shipload, passel; myriad, a thousand and one, scores, numbers, a number, Inf. scillions, Inf. zillions, Inf. oodles, Inf. slew; multiplicity, multitudinousness, plenty, abundance, profusion, galaxy; congestion, jam, press, rush, Inf. mob scene, endless stream, river, torrent, flood, deluge, ocean, sea, world.

3. the multitude

commonalty, the public, the general public, the masses; populace, citizenry, proletariat, hoi polloi, bourgeoisie, Sl. booboisie, rank and file; commoners, peasantry; the lower classes, low life, dregs, riffraff, mob, rabble, rout, Inf. the great unwashed.