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extent

English

Etymology

From Middle English extente, from Anglo-Norman extente and Old French estente (valuation of land, stretch of land), from estendre, extendre (extend) (or from Latin extentus), from Latin extendere (See extend.)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?ks?t?nt/
  • Rhymes: -?nt
  • Hyphenation: ex?tent

Noun

extent (plural extents)

  1. A range of values or locations.
  2. The space, area, volume, etc., to which something extends.
    The extent of his knowledge of the language is a few scattered words.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xii:
      But when they came where that dead Dragon lay, / Stretcht on the ground in monstrous large extent
    • 1827, Conrad Malte-Brun, Universal Geography, or A Description of All the Parts of the World, on a New Plan, Edinburgh: Adam Black, volume 6, book 101, 285:
      The surface of the Balaton and the surrounding marshes is not less than 24 German square miles, or 384 English square miles; its principal feeder is the Szala, but all the water it receives appears inconsiderable relatively to its superficial extent, and the quantity lost in evaporation.
  3. (computing) A contiguous area of storage in a file system.
  4. The valuation of property.
  5. (law) A writ directing the sheriff to seize the property of a debtor, for the recovery of debts of record due to the Crown.

Derived terms

  • multiextent
  • to an extent
  • to some extent

Related terms

  • extend
  • extense

Translations

Adjective

extent

  1. (obsolete) Extended.

See also

  • scope
  • extent on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Verb

extent

  1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of ext?

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multitude

English

Etymology

From Middle English multitude, multitud, multytude ((great) amount or number of people or things; multitudinous), borrowed from Old French multitude (crowd of people; diversity, wide range), or directly from its etymon Latin multit?d? (great amount or number of people or things), from multus (many; much) + -t?d? (suffix forming abstract nouns indicating a state or condition). The English word is analysable as multi- +? -tude.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?m?lt?tju?d/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /?m?lt??t(j)ud/, /?m?l-/
  • Hyphenation: mul?ti?tude

Noun

multitude (plural multitudes)

  1. A great amount or number, often of people; abundance, myriad, profusion.
    Synonym: (Northern England, Scotland) hantel, hantle
  2. The mass of ordinary people; the masses, the populace.
    Synonym: crowd
    Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them.
    • Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil

Derived terms

  • multitudinous

Translations

References

Further reading

  • multitude on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Old French multitude.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /myl.ti.tyd/

Noun

multitude f (plural multitudes)

  1. multitude

Further reading

  • “multitude” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin multit?d? (great amount or number of people or things), from multus (many; much) + -t?d? (suffix forming abstract nouns indicating a state or condition).

Noun

multitude f (oblique plural multitudes, nominative singular multitude, nominative plural multitudes)

  1. crowd of people
  2. diversity; wide range

Descendants

  • English: multitude
  • French: multitude

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