multitude

Meaning

Noun

• A great amount or number, often of people; abundance, myriad, profusion.
• The mass of ordinary people; the masses, the populace.

Origin

• From Middle English multitude, multitud, multytude, borrowed from Old French multitude ("crowd of people; diversity, wide range"), or directly from its etymon Latin multitūdō ("great amount or number of people or things"), from multus + -tūdō. The English word is analysable as multi- + -tude.