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Multitude vs Convocation - What's the difference?

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Multitude is a related term of convocation.


As nouns the difference between multitude and convocation

is that multitude is a great amount or number, often of people; myriad; profusion; abundance while convocation is the act of calling or assembling by summons.

multitude

Noun

(en noun)
  • A great amount or number, often of people; myriad; profusion; abundance.
  • * , Episode 12, The Cyclops
  • 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.
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  • The mass of ordinary people; the populous or the masses
  • * Pilate, wishing to please the multitude , released Barabbas to them.
  • Synonyms

    * hantel/hantle

    Derived terms

    * multitudinous

    convocation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of calling or assembling by summons.
  • An assembly or meeting.
  • An assembly of the clergy, by their representatives, to consult on ecclesiastical affairs.
  • An academical assembly, in which the business of the university is transacted.
  • Coordinate terms

    * (academic assembly) (l)