crowd

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Verb 1.2.1.1 Derived terms 1.2.2 Noun 1.2.2.1 Synonyms 1.2.2.2 Derived terms 1.2.2.3 Translations 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.4 References 1.5 Anagrams

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /kraʊd/
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• Rhymes: -aʊd

[edit] Etymology 1

Old English crūdan.

[edit] Verb

to crowd (third-person singular simple present crowds, present participle crowding, simple past and past participle crowded)

1. (transitive) To push, to press, to shove.
2. (transitive) To press or drive together; to mass together.
3. (transitive) To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity.
4. (transitive) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
5. (nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way
6. (intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng
7. (intransitive) To urge or press forward; to force one's self; as, a man crowds into a room
8. (nautical) (of a square-rigged ship) (transitive) To carry excessive sail

[edit] Derived terms

• crowd out
• crowd sail

[edit] Noun

crowd (plural crowds)

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. (with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.

   To fool the crowd with glorious lies. --Tennyson.

   He went not with the crowd to see a shrine. -- Dryden.

4. 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.

[edit] 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

[edit] Derived terms

• crowd catch
• crowd-pleaser
• work the crowd

[edit] Translations

[edit] Etymology 2

Celtic, from Welsh crwth.

[edit] Noun

crowd (plural crowds)

1. (obsolete) A crwth, an Ancient Celtic plucked string instrument.
2. (now dialectal) A fiddle.
   • 1819: wandering palmers, hedge-priests, Saxon minstrels, and Welsh bards, were muttering prayers, and extracting mistuned dirges from their harps, crowds, and rotes. — Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

[edit] References

Part or all of this page has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: cdorw
• c-word