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Multitude

A great number of persons collected together; a numerous collection of persons; a crowd; an assembly.

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Assemblage 76% connected

The act of assembling, or the state of being assembled; association.

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Gathering 76% connected

of Gather

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Group 76% connected

A cluster, crowd, or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of…

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Grouping 76% connected

of Group

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Audience 76% connected

The act of hearing; attention to sounds.

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Following 76% connected

of Follow

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Herd 76% connected

Haired.

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Hive 76% connected

A box, basket, or other structure, for the reception and habitation of a swarm of honeybees.

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Horde 76% connected

A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a…

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Host 76% connected

The consecrated wafer, believed to be the body of Christ, which in the Mass is offered as a sacrifice; also, the bread before consecration.

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Laity 76% connected

The people, as distinguished from the clergy; the body of the people not in orders.

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Legion 76% connected

A body of foot soldiers and cavalry consisting of different numbers at different periods, -- from about four thousand to about six thousand men, -- t…

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Ruck 76% connected

A roc.

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Temporalty 76% connected

The laity; secular people.

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Multitudinous 74% connected

Consisting of a multitude; manifold in number or condition; as, multitudinous waves.

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Multitudinous 74% connected

Consisting of a multitude; manifold in number or condition; as, multitudinous waves.

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Synonym 7

Battalion 92% connected

A body of troops; esp. a body of troops or an army in battle array.

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Concourse 92% connected

A moving, flowing, or running together; confluence.

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Mass 92% connected

The sacrifice in the sacrament of the Eucharist, or the consecration and oblation of the host.

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Pack 92% connected

A pact.

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People 92% connected

The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.

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Plurality 92% connected

The state of being plural, or consisting of more than one; a number consisting of two or more of the same kind; as, a plurality of worlds; the plural…

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Throng 92% connected

of Thring

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