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A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
Saul Bellow

Meaning of "the multitude" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF THE MULTITUDE

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE THE MULTITUDE

the missing link
the Mississippian
the missus
the moer in
the Moirai
the moment
the Monument
the Moonies
the mopes
the morn
the morn´s nicht
the morning after
the morrow
the most
the Mother of Parliaments
the Mountain
the mujaheddin
the munchies
the n-word
the narrative

WORDS THAT END LIKE THE MULTITUDE

altitude
amplitude
aptitude
attitude
certitude
exactitude
fortitude
gratitude
habitude
inaptitude
ineptitude
latitude
longitude
magnitude
multitude
negritude
order of magnitude
plenitude
servitude
show-me attitude
solitude

Synonyms and antonyms of the multitude in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «the multitude» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF THE MULTITUDE

Find out the translation of the multitude to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of the multitude from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «the multitude» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

众人
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

la multitud
570 millions of speakers

English

the multitude
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

भीड़
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

وافر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

множество
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

a multidão
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জনতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

la multitude
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Orang ramai
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

die Vielzahl
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

群衆
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

무리
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Wong akeh
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மக்கள் கூட்டம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लोकसमुदाय
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Çokluk
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

la moltitudine
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

mnogość
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

безліч
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

multitudinea
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

το πλήθος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

die skare
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

den mängd
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

folkemengden
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of the multitude

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «THE MULTITUDE»

The term «the multitude» is quite widely used and occupies the 40.590 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «THE MULTITUDE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about the multitude

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9 QUOTES WITH «THE MULTITUDE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word the multitude.
1
Russell Baker
There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.
2
Saul Bellow
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
3
William Ellery Channing
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.
4
Adam Ferguson
Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.
5
Nathaniel Hawthorne
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
6
Ben Jonson
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
7
Immanuel Kant
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
8
Richard Owen
Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity.
9
Robert Dale Owen
If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THE MULTITUDE»

Discover the use of the multitude in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to the multitude and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Madness in the multitude: human security and world disorder
This book explores how our conceptions of human security have evolved in the latter half of the twentieth century, analyzing the debate about how to promote and advance security as we enter the new millennium.
Fen Osler Hampson, Daudelin, Jean, 2002
2
Occupy Religion: Theology of the Multitude
Looks at the growing role of religion in the Occupy Movement and describes how churches have played key roles in important social movements.
Joerg Rieger, Kwok Pui-Lan, 2013
3
A Grammar of the Multitude: For an Analysis of Contemporary ...
Italian political thinker Paolo Virno argues that the category of "multitude" is a far better tool to analyze contemporary issues than the Hobbesian concept of "people."
Paolo Virno, 2004
4
Poetry of the Possible: Spontaneity, Modernism, and the ...
The abstractions of modernism reimagined as figurations of collective self-organization
Joel Nickels, 2012
5
Multitude: between innovation and negation
The influential Italian thinker offers three essays in the political philosophy of language.
Paolo Virno, 2008
6
The multitude diaries
Often rehearsals for his prints and paintings, these drawings, when combined, form a visual labyrinth that reveals both the potential of the drawing-book as a place for experimentation and the panoramic scope of Orr’s work.The Multitude ...
Chris Orr, 2008
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Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
Empire, by interconnecting more areas of life, is actually creating the possibility for a new kind of democracy, allowing different groups to form a multitude, with the power to forge a democratic alternative to the present world order ...
Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, 2005
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Spirit, Qi, and the Multitude: A Comparative Theology for ...
absolute authority—the modern nation-state—to become a political subject, the multitude is capable of forming a political society autonomously and thereby becoming a political subject precisely because of the multitude's networked ...
Hyo-Dong Lee, 2013
9
The Multitude Against Empire: The Impact of Religion Upon ...
CHAPTER VI THE DEMOCRATIC PROJECT OF THE MULTITUDE Before the lingering question of a religiously diverse multitude's ability to recognize the common interests enumerated above can be entertained, the democratic project itself ...
Ian K. McDaniel, 2008
10
Alone in the Multitude
Christopher Pointe, Christopher T. Pointe, Steven O. Allen. focusing on while escaping the fire. We panic and deeply inhale clouds of smoke into our lungs along the escape route we think we've found. The more you run the deeper and faster ...
Christopher Pointe, Christopher T. Pointe, Steven O. Allen, 2006

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THE MULTITUDE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term the multitude is used in the context of the following news items.
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Share “First Baptist Church of Guthrie pastor...”
One of the great biblical stories is the miracle of Jesus feeding the multitude with just five loaves of bread and two small fish. While the Rev. Hersey Hammons ... «NewsOK.com, Mar 15»
2
Thousands gather for Feeding the Multitude
Since then, the annual Feeding of the Multitude spread from Charleston's East Side to two other locations, Johns Island and, for the first time, West Ashley. «Charleston Post Courier, Nov 10»

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