English Explanatory Dictionary

crowd

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To press forward; to advance by pushing.
  2. To press together or collect in numbers.
  3. To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
  4. To fill by pressing or thronging together
  5. To push, to press, to shove.
  6. To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
  7. To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
  8. To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
noun
  1. A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
  2. Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
  3. The so-called lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar.
  4. A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
noun
  1. Alternative form of crwth.
  2. A fiddle.
verb
  1. To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

Pronunciation

/ˈkɹaʊ̯d/ en-us-crowd.ogg /ˈkɹæʊ̯d/ /ˈkɹaːd/

Word forms

crowd crowds crowding crowded

Etymology

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”). (group of people, mob): Compare typologically throng (<<~ Proto-Germanic *þrinhwaną); Czech dav (akin to Russian дави́ть (davítʹ), да́вка (dávka)); Polish ciżba, ścisk (<~ ciskać, akin to ти́скать (tískatʹ)); Polish tłok, Russian толчея́ (tolčejá) (akin to толка́ть (tolkátʹ)).

Synonyms

becrowd barge swarm throng crowd in crush pile horde assemblage congregation crowd flock huddle legion press slew audience group multitude public aggregation cluster mass everyone general public hoi polloi masses rabble mob tag-rag unwashed

Related words

masses populace public assemble

Derived words

crowder crowdingly crowd in on crowd out crowd together crowd up outcrowd overcrowd undercrowd alone in a crowd anticrowd beat the crowd capacity crowd crowd art crowd catch crowd control crowd disease crowdest crowdfactoring crowdfund crowdfunding crowd-kill crowdlending crowdless crowdlike crowd manipulation crowd pleaser crowd-pleaser crowdpleaser crowd-pleasing crowd-poisoning crowd psychology crowd puller crowd-puller crowd sail crowdsale crowdsensing crowd-source crowdsource crowdsourcing crowd surf crowd surfer crowd surfing crowd vetting crowd wave crowdwork crowdworker crowdy flash crowd flashcrowd follow the crowd in crowd in-crowd play to the crowd rent-a-crowd three's a crowd tough crowd wisdom of the crowd work the crowd wrong crowd

Translations

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