crowd

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#CROWDCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#CROWD crouden, from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#CROWDCategory:English terms derived from Old English#CROWD crūdan, from Proto-West GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#CROWDCategory:English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#CROWD *krūdan, from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#CROWDCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#CROWD *krūdaną, *kreudaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European#CROWDCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#CROWD *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)).

Verb

crowd (third-person singular simple present crowds, present participle crowding, simple past and past participle crowded)Category:English lemmas#CROWDCategory:English verbs#CROWDCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#CROWDCategory:Pages with entries#CROWDCategory:Pages with 1 entry#CROWD

  1. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#CROWD) To press forward; to advance by pushing.
    Synonym: barge
    The man crowded into the packed room.Category:English terms with usage examples#CROWD
  2. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#CROWD) To press together or collect in numbers.
    Synonyms: swarm, throng, crowd in, crush, pile, horde
    They crowded through the archway and into the park.Category:English terms with usage examples#CROWD
  3. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CROWD) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
    He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen.Category:English terms with usage examples#CROWD
  4. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CROWD) To fill by pressing or thronging together
  5. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CROWD, often used with "out of" or "off") To push, to press, to shove.
    They tried to crowd her off the sidewalk.Category:English terms with usage examples#CROWD
  6. (nauticalCategory:en:Nautical#CROWD) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
  7. (nauticalCategory:en:Nautical#CROWD, of a square-rigged ship, transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CROWD) To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
  8. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CROWD) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
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Noun

crowd (plural crowds)Category:English lemmas#CROWDCategory:English nouns#CROWDCategory:English countable nouns#CROWDCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#CROWDCategory:Pages with entries#CROWDCategory:Pages with 1 entry#CROWD

  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.Category:English terms with usage examples#CROWD
    • 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate [], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, [], →OCLC, 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.
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    • 1909 September 9, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, London: Methuen & Co. [], →OCLC, page 9:
      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.
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  2. 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.Category:English terms with usage examples#CROWD
  3. (with definite article) 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.
    That obscure author's fans were a nerdy crowd which hardly ever interacted before the Internet age.Category:English terms with usage examples#CROWD
    We're concerned that our daughter has fallen in with a bad crowd.Category:English terms with usage examples#CROWD
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Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#CROWDCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#CROWD crowde, from WelshCategory:English terms derived from Welsh#CROWD crwth or a CelticCategory:English terms derived from Celtic languages#CROWD cognate.

Noun

crowd (plural crowds)Category:English lemmas#CROWDCategory:English nouns#CROWDCategory:English countable nouns#CROWDCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#CROWDCategory:Pages with entries#CROWDCategory:Pages with 1 entry#CROWD

  1. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#CROWD) Alternative form of crwth.
  2. (now dialectalCategory:English dialectal terms#CROWD) A fiddle.
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Verb

crowd (third-person singular simple present crowds, present participle crowding, simple past and past participle crowded)Category:English lemmas#CROWDCategory:English verbs#CROWDCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#CROWDCategory:Pages with entries#CROWDCategory:Pages with 1 entry#CROWD

  1. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#CROWD, intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#CROWD) To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

References

crowd”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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