n. 25B6; noun
a multitude of birds : A LOT, a great/large number, a great/large quantity, host, horde, mass, swarm, abundance, profusion; scores, quantities, droves; informal slew, lots, loads, masses, stacks, heaps, tons, dozens, hundreds, thousands, millions; N. Amer. informal gazillions.
Father Peter addressed the multitude : CROWD, gathering, assembly, congregation, flock, throng, horde, mob; formal concourse.
political power in the hands of the multitude : THE (COMMON) PEOPLE, the populace, the masses, the rank and file, the commonality, the commonalty, the plebeians; the hoi polloi, the mob, the proletariat, the common herd, the rabble, the proles, the plebs.