Roget's Thesaurus

#102. Multitude

Nouns

multitude; numerous etc. adj.; numerosity, numerality; multiplicity; profusion etc. (plenty) 639; legion, host; great number, large number, round number, enormous number; a quantity, numbers, array, sight, army, sea, galaxy; scores, peck, bushel, shoal, swarm, draught, bevy, cloud, flock, herd, drove, flight, covey, hive, brood, litter, farrow, fry, nest; crowd etc. (assemblage) 72; lots; all in the world and his wife. [Increase of number] greater number, majority; multiplication, multiple.

Verbs

be numerous etc. adj.; swarm with, teem with, creep with; crowd, swarm, come thick upon; outnumber, multiply; people; swarm like locusts, swarm like bees.

Adjectives

many, several, sundry, divers, various, not a few; Briarean; a hundred, a thousand, a myriad, a million, a quadrillion, a nonillion, a thousand and one; some ten or a dozen, some forty or fifty etc.; half a dozen, half a hundred etc.; very many, full many, ever so many; numerous; numerose; profuse, in profusion; manifold, multiplied, multitudinous, multiple, multinominal, teeming, populous, peopled, crowded, thick, studded; galore. thick coming, many more, more than one can tell, a world of; no end of, no end to; cum multis aliis [Lat.]; thick as hops, thick as hail; plenty as blackberries; numerous as the stars in the firmament, numerous as the sands on the seashore, numerous as the hairs on the head; and what not, and heaven knows what; endless etc. (infinite) 105.

Phrases

their name is 'legion'; acervatim [Lat.]; en foule [Fr.]; many-headed multitude [Sidney]; numerous as glittering gems of morning dew [Young]; vel prece vel pretio [Lat.].