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Crowd

//kɹaʊd// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.

    "After the movie let out, a crowd of people pushed through the exit doors."

  2. 2
    Alternative form of crwth. alt-of, alternative, obsolete

    "A lackey that […] can warble upon a crowd a little."

  3. 3
    a large number of things or people considered together wordnet
  4. 4
    Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.

    "There was a crowd of toys pushed beneath the couch where the children were playing."

  5. 5
    A fiddle. dialectal

    "That keep their Consciences in Cases, / As Fiddlers do their Crowds and Bases,[…]"

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  1. 6
    an informal body of friends wordnet
  2. 7
    The so-called lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar. with-definite-article

    "He went not, with the Crowd, to ſee a Shrine;"

  3. 8
    A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.

    "That obscure author's fans were a nerdy crowd which hardly ever interacted before the Internet age."

Verb
  1. 1
    To press forward; to advance by pushing. intransitive

    "The man crowded into the packed room."

  2. 2
    To play on a crowd; to fiddle. intransitive, obsolete

    "Fiddlers, crowd on, crowd on."

  3. 3
    to gather together in large numbers wordnet
  4. 4
    To press together or collect in numbers. intransitive

    "They crowded through the archway and into the park."

  5. 5
    cause to herd, drive, or crowd together wordnet
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  1. 6
    To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram. transitive

    "He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen."

  2. 7
    approach a certain age or speed wordnet
  3. 8
    To fill by pressing or thronging together transitive

    "The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign."

  4. 9
    fill or occupy to the point of overflowing wordnet
  5. 10
    To push, to press, to shove. often, transitive

    "They tried to crowd her off the sidewalk."

  6. 11
    To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
  7. 12
    To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster. transitive

    "With all her might she crowds all sail off shore; in so doing, fights ’gainst the very winds that fain would blow her homeward; seeks all the lashed sea’s landlessness again; for refuge’s sake forlornly rushing into peril; her only friend her bitterest foe!"

  8. 13
    To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably. transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English crouden, from Old English crūdan, from Proto-West Germanic *krūdan, from Proto-Germanic *krūdaną, *kreudaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *grewt- (“to push; press”). Cognate with German Low German kroden (“to push, shove”), Dutch kruien (“to push, shove”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English crouden, from Old English crūdan, from Proto-West Germanic *krūdan, from Proto-Germanic *krūdaną, *kreudaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *grewt- (“to push; press”). Cognate with German Low German kroden (“to push, shove”), Dutch kruien (“to push, shove”).

Etymology 3

Inherited from Middle English crowde, from Welsh crwth or a Celtic cognate.

Etymology 4

Inherited from Middle English crowde, from Welsh crwth or a Celtic cognate.

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