A torrential rain poured down from the floodgates of the angry heavens upon the bared heads of the assembledmultitude which numbered at the lowest computation five hundred thousand persons.
1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, inRailway Magazine, page703:
On the other hand, to arrive after dusk, when themultitude of garish little public-houses are lit up, giving glimpses of crowded jostling bars and taprooms, is an introduction to a fine city well calculated to affect even the most nonchalant.
We found Pop Glossop in his pantry polishing silver, and put in our order. He seemed a little surprised at the inrush of such amultitude, but on learning that our tongues were hanging out obliged with a bottle of the best[…]
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Borrowed fromLatinmultitūdō(“great amount or number of people or things”), frommultus(“many; much”) +-tūdō(suffix forming abstract nouns indicating a state or condition).
, Oxford:Oxford University Press, March 2003;“multitude”, inLexico,Dictionary.com;Oxford University Press,2019–2022.