Multitude vs Gaggle - What's the difference?
multitude | gaggle | Related terms |
A great amount or number, often of people; myriad; profusion; abundance.
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The mass of ordinary people; the populous or the masses
* Pilate, wishing to please the multitude , released Barabbas to them.
A group of geese when they are on the ground or on the water.
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Any group or gathering of related things; bunch.
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To make a noise like a goose; to cackle.
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Multitude is a related term of gaggle.
As nouns the difference between multitude and gaggle
is that multitude is a great amount or number, often of people; myriad; profusion; abundance while gaggle is a group of geese when they are on the ground or on the water.As a verb gaggle is
to make a noise like a goose; to cackle.multitude
English
(wikipedia multitude)Noun
(en noun)- A torrential rain poured down from the floodgates of the angry heavens upon the bared heads of the assembled multitude which numbered at the lowest computation five hundred thousand persons.
Synonyms
* hantel/hantleDerived terms
* multitudinousgaggle
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(gaggl)- (Francis Bacon)
The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Vol. II):
- When a friend asked Socrates, how he could bear the scolding of his wife Xantippe? he retorted, and asked him, how he could bear the gaggling of his geese?