According to [jisho.org](https://jisho.org/search/%E5%A4%A7%E5%8B%A2),
[大]{おお}[勢]{ぜい} means 'crowd of people; great number of people​'. Yet I have
seen '大勢の人' several times: is it redundant?
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meaning nuances
Is '大勢の人' redundant?
No, it's not redundant. (Neither is 大勢の人々, for that matter.) While 大勢 means a
crowd, generally of the human variety, it usually appears as a modifier rather
than on its own. It can modify more specific nouns than just 人, too. So you
can have a large family (大勢の家族) or a mob of visitors (大勢の客). It also works
with group nouns (like 大勢の集まり) and modified nouns (like 大勢の美しい女性たち). You can
even use it modify things that stand in _for_ people, like a number of
_voices_ (大勢の声) or _eyes_ (大勢の目).

(And when I was checking alc.co.jp for any references to non-humans, I came
across the rather disturbing example of "大勢の殺された赤ん坊たち" or "a heap of murdered
babies." Hopefully that one was pulled from fiction.)
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