Multitude vs Portion - What's the difference?
multitude | portion | 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.
An allocated amount.
That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
One's fate; lot.
* Bible, Luke xii. 46
* Keble
The part of an estate given or falling to a child or heir; an inheritance.
* Bible, Luke xv. 12
A wife's fortune; a dowry.
* 1613 , , V. iv. 31:
To divide into amounts, as for allocation to specific purposes.
To endow with a portion or inheritance.
As nouns the difference between multitude and portion
is that multitude is a great amount or number, often of people; myriad; profusion; abundance while portion is an allocated amount.As a verb portion is
to divide into amounts, as for allocation to specific purposes.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
* multitudinousportion
English
Noun
(en noun)- The lord of that servant will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.
- Man's portion is to die and rise again.
- Give me the portion of goods that falleth to me.
- Commend me to her, and to piece her portion / Tender her this.
Usage notes
Relatively formal, compared to the more informal part or more concrete and casual piece. For example, “part of the money” (both informal) but “portion of the proceeds” (both formal).Synonyms
* part * pieceDerived terms
* portionless * proportionVerb
(en verb)- Him portioned maids, apprenticed orphans, blest. — Alexander Pope.