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measurement
English
Etymology
measure +? -ment
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?me?.?.m?nt/
- (General American), IPA(key): /?me?.?.m?nt/
Noun
measurement (plural measurements)
- The act of measuring.
- Magnitude (or extent or amount) determined by an act of measuring.
Translations
See also
- A Dictionary of Units of Measurement
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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)
- A great amount or number, often of people; abundance, myriad, profusion.
- Synonym: (Northern England, Scotland) hantel, hantle
- 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)
- 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)
- crowd of people
- diversity; wide range
Descendants
- English: multitude
- French: multitude
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