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say it: MUHL-tuh-tood
multitude is a noun meaning "a large indefinite number". It is pronounced /ˈmʌltəˌtud/ — MUHL-tuh-tood. It carries 3 recorded senses.
a large indefinite number
“a battalion of ants”
“a multitude of TV antennas”
“a plurality of religions”
a large gathering of people
the common people generally
“separate the warriors from the mass”
“power to the people”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for multitude come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.