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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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crew
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: kroo?, IPA(key): /k?u?/
- Rhymes: -u?
- Homophones: crewe, Crewe, cru
Etymology 1
From Middle English crue, from Old French creue (“an increase, recruit, military reinforcement”), the feminine past participle of creistre (“grow”), from Latin crescere (“to arise, grow”).
Noun
crew (plural crews)
- A group of people together
- (obsolete) Any company of people; an assemblage; a throng.
- A group of people (often staff) manning and operating a large facility or piece of equipment such as a factory, ship, boat, airplane, or spacecraft.
- A group of people working together on a task.
- (art) The group of workers on a dramatic production who are not part of the cast.
- (informal, often derogatory) A close group of friends.
- (often derogatory) A set of individuals lumped together by the speaker.
- 1861 William Weston Patton, (version of) John Brown's Body
- He captured Harper’s Ferry, with his nineteen men so few,
- And frightened "Old Virginny" till she trembled thru and thru;
- They hung him for a traitor, they themselves the traitor crew,
- But his soul is marching on.
- 1861 William Weston Patton, (version of) John Brown's Body
- (Scouting) A group of Rovers.
- (slang, hip-hop) A hip-hop group
- (rowing) A rowing team manning a single shell.
- (obsolete) Any company of people; an assemblage; a throng.
- A person in a crew
- (plural: crew) A member of the crew of a vessel or plant.
- (art, plural: crew) A worker on a dramatic production who is not part of the cast.
- (nautical, plural: crew) A member of a ship's company who is not an officer.
- (plural: crew) A member of the crew of a vessel or plant.
- (sports, rowing, US, uncountable) The sport of competitive rowing.
- 1973, University of Virginia Undergraduate Record
- The University of Virginia belongs to the Atlantic Coast Conference and competes interscholastically in basketball, baseball, crew, cross country, fencing, football, golf, indoor track, lacrosse, polo, soccer, swimming, tennis, track, and wrestling.
- 1973, University of Virginia Undergraduate Record
Synonyms
- (group manning a vessel): ship's company, all hands, complement
- (group engaged in a task): team, gang
- (non-cast dramatic personnel): staff, stagehands
- (social group): clique, gang, pack, crowd, bunch, lot (UK); posse
- (group lumped together): crowd, flock, lot, gang
- (hip-hop group): posse, band, group
- (member of a crew): crewer, member, crewmember; nautical only: sailor, seaman
- (non-officer ship worker): seaman
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
crew (third-person singular simple present crews, present participle crewing, simple past and past participle crewed)
- (transitive and intransitive) To be a member of a vessel's crew
- To be a member of a work or production crew
- To supply workers or sailors for a crew
- (nautical) To do the proper work of a sailor
- (nautical) To take on, recruit (new) crew
Derived terms
- crewer
- uncrewed
- crew up
Translations
Etymology 2
Verb
crew
- (Britain, archaic) simple past tense of crow (“make the characteristic sound of a rooster”).
- It was still dark when the cock crew.
Etymology 3
Probably of Brythonic origin.
Noun
crew (plural crews)
- (Britain, dialectal) A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs
Derived terms
- crewyard
Etymology 4
Noun
crew (plural crews)
- The Manx shearwater.
Gallery
See also
- Appendix:Dictionary notes/crew
- Crew on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Spanish
Noun
crew m (plural crews)
- crew
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