multitude (multitudes plural )
1 quant A multitude of things or people is a very large number of them.
QUANT of pl-n
There are a multitude of small quiet roads to cycle along..., Addiction to drugs can bring a multitude of other problems. If you say that something covers or hides a multitude of sins, you mean that it hides something unattractive or does not reveal the true nature of something.
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a multitude of sins phrase PHR after v
`Strong, centralized government' is a term that can cover a multitude of sins.
2 n-count You can refer to a very large number of people as a multitude.
WRITTEN
(=crowd)
...surrounded by a noisy multitude.
3 n-count-coll You can refer to the great majority of people in a particular country or situation as the multitude or the multitudes.
the N
The hideous truth was hidden from the multitude...