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"MULTITUDES" is a plural of: multitude. |
Date "MULTITUDES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Multitudes Dame Juliana Berners, in her Booke of St. Albans, says, in designating companies we must not use the Names of multitudes promiscuously, and examples her remark thus:- " `We say a congregacyon of people, a hoost of men, a felyshyppynge of jomen, and a bevy of ladyes; we must speak of a herde of dere, swannys, cranys, or wrenys, a sege of herons or bytourys, a muster of pecockes, a watche of nyghtyngales, a fllyghte of doves, a claterynge of choughes, a pryde of lyons, a slewthe of beeres, a gagle of geys, a skulke of foxes, a sculle of frerys; a pontificalitye of prestys, and a superfluyte of nonnes.' "- Booke of St. Albans (1486). She adds, that a strict regard to these niceties better distinguishes "gentylmen from ungentylmen," than regard to the rules of grammar, or even to the moral law. (See Numbers.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: MULTITUDES |
| English words defined with "MULTITUDES": army worm, armyworm ♦ Pseudaletia unipuncta ♦ Zodiacal light. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "MULTITUDES": Christian ♦ HICHENS ♦ Shorne. (references) |
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Blaise Pascal | Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny. |
Walt Whitman | Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes). |
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John Locke | 1690 | Of this point therefore we are to note, that sith men naturally have no full and perfect power to command whole politic multitudes of men, therefore utterly without our consent, we could in such sort be at no man's commandment living. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Not seldom, it had been seen by multitudes. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | There was at this moment an indescribable divinity within him which makes the multitudes fall back and make way before a man. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | CHRISTIAN, n. One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. One who follows the teachings of Christ in so far as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin. I dreamed I stood upon a hill, and, lo! The godly multitudes walked to and fro Beneath, in Sabbath garments fitly clad, With pious mien, appropriately sad, While all the church bells made a solemn din -- A fire-alarm to those who lived in sin. Then saw I gazing thoughtfully below, With tranquil face, upon that holy show A tall, spare figure in a robe of white, Whose eyes diffused a melancholy light. "God keep you, strange," I exclaimed. "You are No doubt (your habit shows it) from afar; And yet I entertain the hope that you, Like these good people, are a Christian too." He raised his eyes and with a look so stern It made me with a thousand blushes burn Replied -- his manner with disdain was spiced: "What! I a Christian? No, indeed! I'm Christ." G.J. |
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John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | Roads and canals, by multiplying and facilitating the communications and intercourse between distant regions and multitudes of men, are among the most important means of improvement. |
James K. Polk | 1845-1849 | New communities and States are seeking protection under its aegis, and multitudes from the Old World are flocking to our shores to participate in its blessings. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Above all, I think we must work together and find ways in which the multitudes of small jurisdictions can be brought together more efficiently. |
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| "MULTITUDES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "MULTITUDES" is used about 56 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 56 | 45,296 |
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| Language | Translations for "MULTITUDES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | Mengen (blend, crowds, lots, masses, mingle, mix, plenties, quantities, quantums, shuffle). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 有衆 (the multitudes, the people). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ゆうしゅう (deep contemplation, excellence, gloom, grief, imprisonment, melancholy, perfection, superiority, the multitudes, the people). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ultitudesmay las multitudes. (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 19, Verse 2 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai hkolouqhsan autw ocloi polloi kai eqerapeusen autouV ekei |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et secutae sunt eum turbae multae et curavit eos ibi |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | & him felgyde michele manega. & he hyge-hælde þær. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And myche puple suede him, and he heelide hem there. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And moche people folowed him and he healed them theare. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And great multitudes followed him; and he healed them there. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And a great number went after him; and he made them well there. |
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| Language | Matthew Chapter 19, Verse 2 |
| Cebuano | Ug misunod kaniya ang mga dagkung panon sa katawhan, ug didto iyang giayo sila. |
| Croatian | Za njim je išao silan svijet. Ondje ih izlijeèi. |
| Danish | Og store Skarer fulgte ham, og han helbredte dem der. |
| Dutch | En vele scharen volgden Hem, en Hij genas ze aldaar. |
| Finnish | Ja suuri kansan paljous seurasi häntä, ja hän paransi heitä siellä. |
| French | Une grande foule le suivit, et l il guérit les malades. |
| German | und es folgte ihm viel Volks nach, und er heilte sie daselbst. |
| Haitian Creole | Yon gwo foul moun t'ap swiv li. Lè l' rive, li geri malad yo. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Banyak orang mengikuti Dia, dan Ia menyembuhkan mereka di situ. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka amatlah banyak orang mengikut Dia, lalu disembuhkan-Nya mereka itu di sana. |
| Italian | E lo seguì molta folla e col egli guarì i malati. |
| Manx Gaelic | As deiyr earrooyn mooarey dy leih er, ren eh ad y lheihys ayns shen. |
| Maori | He rahi hoki te hui i aru i a ia; a whakaorangia ana ratou e ia i reira. |
| Norwegian | Og meget folk fulgte ham, og han helbredet dem der. |
| Portuguese | e seguiram-no grandes multidões, e curou-os ali. |
| Rumanian | Dupq El au mers multe gloate; wi acolo a vindecat pe cei bolnavi. |
| Russian | ъБ оЙН ПУМЕ"ПЧБМП НОПЗП МА"ЕК, Й пО ЙУ"ЕМЙМ ЙИ ФБН. |
| Shuar | Untsurí aents nemariarmiayi tura Jáiniancha pénker awajsamiayi. |
| Swahili | Watu wengi walimfuata huko, naye akawaponya. |
| Swedish | Och mycket folk följde honom, och han botade där de sjuka. |
| Uma | Wori' tauna mpotuku' -i, pai' to peda' napaka'uri'. |
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Misspellings | |
"MULTITUDES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bultitude, maltitude, mulititudes, mulitude, Multifuel, multitudi, multitudo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "MULTITUDES" (pronounced mu"ltutyuw'dz) |
| 3 | -uw' d z | altitudes, aptitudes, attitudes, etudes, interludes, latitudes, longitudes, magnitudes, platitudes, preludes, seafoods. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-l-m-s-t-t-u-u" | |
-1 letter: lutetiums, multitude. | |
-2 letters: lutetium, multiuse. | |
-3 letters: dilutes, duelist, mildest, mutuels, mutules, slitted, smutted, stilted, tediums, tumults. | |
-4 letters: delist, demits, dilute, duties, idlest, listed, litmus, lusted, luteum, lutist, medius, milted, misled, misted, muesli, musted, mutest, mutuel, mutule, silted, slimed, smiled, suited, tedium, telium, tildes, tilted, titled, titles, tumuli, tumult. | |
-5 letters: deils, deism, deist, delis, delts, demit. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-l-m-s-t-t-u-u" | |
+5 letters: superstimulated. | |
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