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A multitude is a very large number of people or things — it's a formal, slightly grand way of saying 'a lot' or 'a huge crowd.' You might read that a leader spoke to 'a multitude' of followers, or that someone faced 'a multitude of problems,' meaning many problems at once. It's more common in writing than casual speech — in daily talk, most people would just say 'a lot of' or 'tons of' instead.
大量、眾多（正式用語）
組成from Latin multus (many) + -tude
同家族的字
- multipleshares the Latin root multus (many)
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
multitudenoun/ˈmʌltɪtjuːd/
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A great amount or number, often of people; abundance, myriad, profusion.
- Do I contradict myself? / Very well then I contradict myself, / (I am large, I contain multitudes.)
- 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.
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The mass of ordinary people; the masses, the populace.
- Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil
- Along with its natural protectors and guardians, learning will be caſt into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a ſwiniſh multitude.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。