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      "\u02c8m\u0259lt\u0259\u02cctjud",
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      "From Middle English multitude, multitud, multytude (\u201c(great) amount or number of people or things; multitudinous\u201d),1 borrowed from Old French multitude (\u201ccrowd of people; diversity, wide range\u201d), or directly from its etymon Latin multit\u016bd\u014d (\u201cgreat amount or number of people or things\u201d),2 from multus (\u201cmany; much\u201d) + -t\u016bd\u014d (suffix forming abstract nouns indicating a state or condition). The English word is analysable as multi- + -itude."
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            "mean": "A great amount or number, often of people; abundance, myriad, profusion.\nSynonym: (Northern England, Scotland) hantel, hantle\n1892, Walt Whitman, \u201cSong of Myself\u201d, in Leaves of Grass\u00a0, Philadelphia, Pa.: David McKay, publisher,\u00a0, \u2192OCLC, stanza 51, page 78:Do I contradict myself? / Very well then I contradict myself, / (I am large, I contain multitudes.)\n1922 February, James Joyce, \u201c\u201d, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company,\u00a0, \u2192OCLC:A torrential rain poured down from the floodgates of the angry heavens upon the bared heads of the assembled multitude which numbered at the lowest computation five hundred thousand persons.\n1960, P G Wodehouse, chapter XIV, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, \u2192OCLC:We found Pop Glossop in his pantry polishing silver, and put in our order. He seemed a little surprised at the inrush of such a multitude, but on learning that our tongues were hanging out obliged with a bottle of the best"
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            "mean": "The mass of ordinary people; the masses, the populace.\nSynonym: crowd\n1599, \u201cExodus 23:2\u201d, in Geneva Bible\u200e, Tolle Lege Press, \u2192ISBN, page 83:Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil\n1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event.\u00a0, London:    J Dodsley,\u00a0, \u2192OCLC, page 117:Along with its natural protectors and guardians, learning will be ca\u017ft into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a \u017fwini\u017fh multitude."
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