A band, troop, company, host.

An armed host, an army. Also, more generally: A host; a multitude, a great company.

A great company (esp. of persons); a multitude, a host. An early sense in the Teutonic languages; now only as in 4.

A body of persons, esp. of troops, etc. in battle array; a troop; a company, band; a crowd, multitude. Cf. thrum, n.1

A large gathering of people; a crowd, a throng, a host.

A large company of people; a multitude, host. Now always in a disparaging sense: cf. sense 3b.

A very large or dense body or collection; a crowd, throng, multitude. (Often contemptuous.) of persons.

A numerous concourse or assemblage (of people); ‘a multitude crowded into one place’ (Johnson).

A number, a crowd, of people. Cf. power, n.1 7a. Obsolete.

A large assemblage; a multitude, an array. Of people, supernatural beings, etc.

As a mass noun: numerousness. As a count noun: a multitude, a crowd, a host.

figurative. Applied contemptuously to a swarm of people; a teeming crowd, a ‘crew’.

= confluence, n. 5.

U.S. A swarm, large number.

Chiefly British regional. A crowd of people; a large group.

A multitude, a crowd, a throng.

transferred. A swarming or teeming multitude.

A large or dense mass of small animals, esp. vermin; a swarm. In extended use: a large or dense group of people or things. Cf. screed, n.1 6.

A large number, a crowd; plural ‘lots’.

A wild party; an escapade.