Multitude or Multitudes?

[nq:1]I am writing an article for a special events newsletter about preparingfood for large numbers of people. I would like ... Google search turns up both phrases used almost equally, so I am turning to the experts. Which phrase is correct?[/nq]
Standards of correctness are derived from
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[nq:1]I am writing an article for a special events newsletter about preparing food for large numbers of people. I would ... Google search turns up both phrases used almost equally, so I am turning to the experts. Which phrase is correct?[/nq]
Since "multitude" is just a poncy Latinate word for "crowd" or "whole bunch of folks", there's no reason why you shouldn't use it exactly as you would us

I checked to see whether one was Biblical. Both are used in the King James vesion; the large crowds that Jesus addresses are called both "the multitude" and "the multitudes." In the story about feeding the crowd with loaves and fishes, which would be an appropriate reference, it uses "multitude."

Best Donna Richoux

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[nq:1]I checked to see whether one was Biblical. Both are used in the King James vesion; the large crowds that ... In the story about feeding the crowd with loaves and fishes, which would be an appropriate reference, it uses "multitude."[/nq]
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[nq:1](Could your wariness over "crowd" perhaps stem from a vague recollection of a related word : "myriad"?)[/nq]
Come on, then, you great tease: astound me. You know you want to.

Mike.

[nq:2]I checked to see whether one was Biblical. Both are ... fishes, which would be an appropriate reference, it uses "multitude."[/nq]
[nq:1]Do those uses support the notion that if there is one multitude here now and another one here tomorrow, that ... a certain threshold, it is no longer a multitude but "multitudes" at the same time and in the same place?[/nq]
I think it's, if you have

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[nq:1]I checked to see whether one was Biblical. Both are used in the King James vesion; the large crowds that ... the crowd with loaves and fishes, which would be an appropriate reference, it uses "multitude." Best Donna Richoux[/nq]
Joel 4.14