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Multitude vs Gaggle - What's the difference?

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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 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.
  • *
  • 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

    gaggle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A group of geese when they are on the ground or on the water.
  • *
  • Any group or gathering of related things; bunch.
  • * '>citation

    • Verb

    (gaggl)
  • To make a noise like a goose; to cackle.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • * 1733 , , "A New Simile for the Ladies with Useful Annotations by Dr. Sheridan", note 7 (in 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?

    See also

    * skein * wedge English collective nouns