Multitude vs Folk - What's the difference?
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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.
Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a land, their culture, tradition, or history.
Of or pertaining to common people as opposed to ruling classes or elites.
(architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles.
Believed or transmitted by the common people; not academically correct or rigorous.
(archaic) A grouping of smaller peoples or tribes as a nation.
* J. R. Green
The inhabitants of a region, especially the native inhabitants.
*1907 , Race Prejudice , Jean Finot, p. 251:
*:We thus arrive at a most unexpected imbroglio. The French have become a Germanic folk' and the Germanic ' folk have become Gaulish!
One’s relatives, especially one’s parents.
(music) Folk music.
(plural only) People in general.
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, chapter=1 (plural only) A particular group of people.
As nouns the difference between multitude and folk
is that multitude is a great amount or number, often of people; myriad; profusion; abundance while folk is people.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
* multitudinousfolk
English
Alternative forms
* voke, volk, volke (dialectal)Adjective
(-)- folk''' psychology; '''folk linguistics
Noun
(en-noun)- The organization of each folk , as such, sprang mainly from war.
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