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CROWD
crowd
(noun) a large number of things or people considered together; “a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers”
crowd, crew, gang, bunch
(noun) an informal body of friends; “he still hangs out with the same crowd”
crowd, crowd together
(verb) to gather together in large numbers; “men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah”
herd, crowd
(verb) cause to herd, drive, or crowd together; “We herded the children into a spare classroom”
push, crowd
(verb) approach a certain age or speed; “She is pushing fifty”
crowd
(verb) fill or occupy to the point of overflowing; “The students crowded the auditorium”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
crowd (third-person singular simple present crowds, present participle crowding, simple past and past participle crowded)
(intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.
(intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers
Synonyms: swarm, throng, crowd in
(transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
(transitive) To fill by pressing or thronging together
(transitive, often used with "out of" or "off") To push, to press, to shove.
(nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
(nautical, of a, square-rigged ship, transitive) To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
(transitive) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
Noun
crowd (plural crowds)
A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
(with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
Synonyms
• (group of things): aggregation, cluster, group, mass
• (group of people): audience, group, multitude, public, swarm, throng
• (the "lower orders" of people): everyone, general public, masses, rabble, mob, unwashed
Etymology 2
Noun
crowd (plural crowds)
(obsolete) Alternative form of crwth
(now dialectal) A fiddle.
Verb
crowd (third-person singular simple present crowds, present participle crowding, simple past and past participle crowded)
(obsolete, intransitive) To play on a crowd; to fiddle.
Anagrams
• c-word
Source: Wiktionary
Crowd (kroud), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crowded; p. pr. & vb. n. Crowding.] Etym: [OE. crouden, cruden, AS. cr; cf. D. kruijen to push in a wheelbarrow.]
1. To push, to press, to shove. Chaucer.
2. To press or drive together; to mass together. "Crowd us and crush us." Shak.
3. To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity. The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign. Prescott.
4. To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably. [Colloq.] To crowd out, to press out; specifically, to prevent the publication of; as, the press of other matter crowded out the article.
– To crowd sail (Naut.), to carry an extraordinary amount of sail, with a view to accelerate the speed of a vessel; to carry a press of sail.
Crowd, v. i.
1. To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng. The whole company crowded about the fire. Addison. Images came crowding on his mind faster than he could put them into words. Macaulay.
2. To urge or press forward; to force one's self; as, a man crowds into a room.
Crowd, n. Etym: [AS. croda. See Crowd, v. t. ]
1. A number of things collected or closely pressed together; also, a number of things adjacent to each other. A crowd of islands. Pope.
2. A number of persons congregated or collected into a close body without order; a throng. The crowd of Vanity Fair. Macualay. Crowds that stream from yawning doors.--Tennyson.
3. The lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar; the rabble; the mob. To fool the crowd with glorious lies. Tennyson. He went not with the crowd to see a shrine. Dryden.
Syn.
– Throng; multitude. See Throng.
Crowd, n. Etym: [W. crwth; akin to Gael. cruit. Perh. named from its shape, and akin to Gr. curve. Cf. Rote.]
Definition: An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow. [Written also croud, crowth, cruth, and crwth.] A lackey that . . . can warble upon a crowd a little. B. Jonson.
Crowd, v. t.
Definition: To play on a crowd; to fiddle. [Obs.] "Fiddlers, crowd on." Massinger.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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