| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. A quantity accumulated: accumulation, aggregation, amassment, assemblage, collection, congeries, cumulation, gathering. See COLLECT. 2. A separate and distinct portion of matter: body, bulk, object. See MATTER. 3. Great extent, amount, or dimension: amplitude, bulk, magnitude, size, volume (often used in plural). See BIG. 4. The common people. Used in plural: common (used in plural), commonality, commonalty, commoner (used in plural), crowd, hoi polloi, mob, pleb (used in plural), plebeian (used in plural), populace, public, ruck1, third estate. See OVER. 5. A very large number of things grouped together: army, cloud, crowd, drove, flock, horde, host, legion, mob, multitude, ruck1, score (used in plural), swarm, throng. See BIG, GROUP. 6. An enormous number of persons gathered together: crowd, crush, drove, flock, horde, mob, multitude, press, ruck1, swarm, throng. See BIG, GROUP. 7. A great deal: abundance, mountain, much, plenty, profusion, wealth, world. Informal : barrel, heap, lot, pack, peck2, pile. Regional : power, sight. See BIG. 8. A group of things gathered haphazardly: agglomeration, bank1, cumulus, drift, heap, hill, mess, mound, mountain, pile, shock2, stack, tumble. See ORDER. 9. The greatest part or portion: bulk, preponderance, preponderancy, weight. See BIG.
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