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Crowd Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Crowd? [n] a large number of things or people considered together; "a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers" [n] an informal body of friends; "he still hangs out with the same crowd" [v] to gather together in large numbers; "men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah" [v] cause to herd, drive, or crowd together; "We herded the children into a spare classroom" [v] approach a certain age or speed; "She is pushing fifty" [v] fill or occupy to the point of overflowing; "The students crowded the auditorium" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Crowd: bunch \| crew \| crowd together \| gang \| push Related Terms \| Find terms related to Crowd: A string \| abound with \| accelerate \| age group \| aggregation \| Amati \| army \| assault \| assemblage \| assemble \| assembly \| band \| bar \| barricade \| bass \| bass viol \| battalion \| be alive with \| bear \| bear upon \| bevy \| block \| block up \| blockade \| body \| bolt \| boost \| bow \| bridge \| brigade \| brim \| bristle with \| buck \| bull \| bull fiddle \| bulldoze \| bump \| bump against \| bunch \| bunch up \| bundle \| bunt \| burst with \| bustle \| butt \| butt against \| cabal \| cadre \| camarilla \| cast \| cell \| cello \| charge \| charmed circle \| chase \| chock \| choke \| choke off \| circle \| clan \| clique \| close \| close off \| close tight \| close up \| closed circle \| clot \| cloud \| cluster \| clutter \| cohort \| cohue \| collect \| collection \| come together \| compact \| company \| complement \| compress \| concentrate \| condense \| congeries \| congest \| congregate \| congregation \| consolidate \| constrict \| contingent \| contrabass \| converge \| copulate \| corps \| corral \| coterie \| couple \| covey \| cram \| crawl with \| creep with \| Cremona \| crew \| crush \| D string \| dash \| dash off \| dash on \| date \| debar \| deluge \| densen \| densify \| detachment \| detail \| dig \| dispatch \| division \| dog \| double bass \| double-time \| drench \| drive \| drive on \| drove \| E string \| elbow \| elite \| elite group \| expedite \| faction \| festinate \| fiddle \| fiddlebow \| fiddlestick \| fill \| fill to overflowing \| fill up \| fingerboard \| fleet \| flock \| flock together \| flood \| flow together \| force \| forgather \| forge ahead \| forward \| freight \| fuse \| G string \| gaggle \| galaxy \| gang \| gang around \| gang up \| gather \| gather around \| get going \| get moving \| get together \| glut \| gluttonize \| go slow \| goad \| gorge \| group \| grouping \| groupment \| haste \| hasten \| hasten on \| heap \| herd \| herd together \| hie on \| hive \| horde \| host \| huddle \| hurry \| hurry along \| hurry on \| hurry through \| hurry up \| hurry-scurry \| hurtle \| hustle \| hustle up \| ignobile vulgus \| inch forward \| ingroup \| in-group \| inner circle \| jab \| jam \| jam-pack \| jog \| joggle \| jolt \| jostle \| junta \| junto \| kit \| kit fiddle \| kit violin \| lade \| league \| leap \| legion \| link \| load \| lock \| lose no time \| lot \| make haste \| many-headed multitude \| mass \| meet \| merge \| mill \| mob \| mobile vulgus \| move quickly \| movement \| muddle through \| multiply \| multitude \| muster \| nudge \| obstruct \| occlude \| outfit \| out-group \| overburden \| overcharge \| overfeed \| overfill \| overflow with \| overlade \| overload \| overstuff \| overweight \| pack \| pad \| panoply \| parley \| party \| peer group \| phalanx \| pile \| pile drive \| platoon \| plunge \| poke \| posse \| post \| pour \| precipitate \| press \| press forward \| press on \| prod \| pullulate with \| punch \| push \| push forward \| push on \| push through \| quicken \| rabble \| race \| railroad through \| rally \| rally around \| ram \| ram down \| ram in \| regiment \| rendezvous \| ring \| rout \| ruck \| run \| run against \| rush \| rush along \| rush through \| salon \| satiate \| saturate \| scamper \| scores \| scramble \| scroll \| scurry \| scuttle \| seethe \| set \| shake \| shoulder \| shove \| shut off \| shut out \| shut tight \| soak \| solidify \| soundboard \| spate \| speed \| speed along \| speed up \| spur \| spurt \| squab \| squad \| squash \| squeeze \| squeeze shut \| squish \| stable \| stampede \| stifle \| stop up \| Strad \| Stradivari \| Stradivarius \| strangle \| strangulate \| stream \| stress \| string \| stuff \| suffocate \| supercharge \| supersaturate \| surcharge \| surfeit \| surge \| swarm \| swarm with \| tamp \| team \| tear \| teem with \| tenor violin \| the common herd \| the crowd \| the great unnumbered \| the great unwashed \| the herd \| the hoi polloi \| the horde \| the majority \| the many \| the masses \| the mob \| the multitude \| throng \| throng with \| thrust \| top off \| tribe \| troop \| troupe \| tuning peg \| unite \| urge \| viola \| violin \| violinette \| violoncello \| violoncello piccolo \| violone \| violotta \| wad \| we-group \| weight \| whip \| whip along \| wing See Also \| approach \| army \| assemblage \| collect \| come near \| come on \| congregate \| crush \| displace \| draw close \| draw near \| drove \| fill \| flock \| gather \| gathering \| go up \| herd \| horde \| huddle \| jam \| jam \| mass \| mob \| mob \| move \| near \| occupy \| overcrowd \| pack \| phalanx \| pile \| pour \| press \| pullulate \| rabble \| rout \| stream \| swarm \| swarm \| teem \| throng \| troop Crowd In Webster's Dictionary \Crowd\ (kroud), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crowded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Crowding}.] [OE. crouden, cruden, AS. cr?dan; 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. [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. --Macaulay. 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. [W. crwth; akin to Gael. cruit. Perh. named from its shape, and akin to Gr. kyrto`s curved, and E. curve. Cf. {Rote}.] 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. To play on a crowd; to fiddle. [Obs.] ``Fiddlers, crowd on.'' --Massinger.

Crowd Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Crowd?

[n] a large number of things or people considered together; "a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers"
[n] an informal body of friends; "he still hangs out with the same crowd"
[v] to gather together in large numbers; "men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah"
[v] cause to herd, drive, or crowd together; "We herded the children into a spare classroom"
[v] approach a certain age or speed; "She is pushing fifty"
[v] fill or occupy to the point of overflowing; "The students crowded the auditorium"

Crowd In Webster's Dictionary

\Crowd\ (kroud), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crowded}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Crowding}.] [OE. crouden, cruden, AS. cr?dan; 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. [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.             --Macaulay.

         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. [W. crwth; akin to Gael. cruit. Perh. named
from its shape, and akin to Gr. kyrto`s curved, and E. curve.
Cf. {Rote}.]
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.
To play on a crowd; to fiddle. [Obs.] ``Fiddlers, crowd on.''
--Massinger.

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