crowd
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /kɹaʊd/
crowd (crowds, present participle crowding; past and past participle crowded)
- (intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.
- The man crowded into the packed room.
- (intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers
- They crowded through the archway and into the park.
- Synonyms: swarm, throng, crowd in
- [T]he whole company closed their ranks, and crowded about the fire.
- 1911, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Bunyan,_John Bunyan, John]”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica:
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- (transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
- He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen.
- c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene ii]:
- Crowd us and crush us.
- (transitive) To fill by pressing or thronging together
- 1875, William Hickling Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain
- The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign.
- 1875, William Hickling Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain
- (transitive, often used with "out of" or "off") To push, to press, to shove.
- They tried to crowd her off the sidewalk.
- (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.
- French: se précipiter
- Portuguese: pressionar
crowd (plural crowds)
- 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.
- 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619 ↗, page 16 ↗:
- Athelstan Arundel walked home […], foaming and raging. […] He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
- 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter I, in The Squire’s Daughter, London: Methuen, OCLC 12026604 ↗; republished New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1919, OCLC 491297620 ↗:
- He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. […] But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again […] she found her mother standing up before the seat on which she had sat all the evening searching anxiously for her with her eyes, and her father by her side.
- 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.
- (with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
- 1849, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1850, OCLC 3968433 ↗, (
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- To fool the crowd with glorious lies.
- He went not with the crowd to see a shrine.
- 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.
- (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
- French: foule
- German: Gedränge, Menge, Volk (colloquial)
- Italian: folla, turba, torma, fiumana, stuolo, massa, moltitudine
- Portuguese: multidão
- Russian: толпа́
- Spanish: muchedumbre, turba, multitud, montón, vulgo
- French: monceau
- German: Haufen
- Italian: mucchio
- Portuguese: pilha, monte
- Russian: ку́ча
- Spanish: montón, multitud, amasijo
crowd (plural crowds)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of crwth
- 1600, Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels
- A lackey that […] can warble upon a crowd a little.
- 1600, Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels
- (now dialectal) A fiddle.
- 1819, Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
- wandering palmers, hedge-priests, Saxon minstrels, and Welsh bards, were muttering prayers, and extracting mistuned dirges from their harps, crowds, and rotes.
- 1684, Samuel Butler, Hudibras
- That keep their consciences in cases, / As fiddlers do with crowds and bases
- 1819, Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
crowd (crowds, present participle crowding; past and past participle crowded)
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