crowd

Signification (Anglais)

Verb

1. (intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.
2. (intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers.
3. (transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
4. (transitive) To fill by pressing or thronging together
5. (often, transitive) To push, to press, to shove.
6. To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
7. (transitive) To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
8. (transitive) 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. (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.

Noun

1. (alt-of, alternative, obsolete) Alternative form of crwth.
2. (dialectal) A fiddle.

Concepts

foule

masse

groupe

multitude

cohue

pousser

bande

affluence

amas

essaim

tas

troupe

attroupement

bousculade

troupeau

gang

marée humaine

ensemble

nuée

rassemblement

massif

monde

🗺️

nombreux

peuple

🧑‍🤝‍🧑

quantité

racaille

🧑‍🤝‍🧑

se rassembler

serré

serrer

tourbe

être proche

figurants

groupement

monceau

s’attrouper

s’entasser

spectateurs

bourrer a craquer

crwth

crouth

accumulation

tropeau

armée

assistance

banc

bouchon

clique

collection

collectivité

combinaison

Synonymes

throng

multitude

group

flock

swarm

mass

mob

herd

collection

heap

gang

cluster

company

pile

bunch

assembly

accumulation

people

🧑‍🤝‍🧑

rabble

band

jam

squeeze

horde

gather

gathering

pack

assemblage

public

jostle

cram

party

🥳

set

crush

community

press

push

bevy

crowd together

huddle

congregate

concourse

school

🏫

many

body

masses

stuff

stream

lot

host

assemble

Traductions

folla

Menge

muchedumbre

menigte

multitud

massa

multidão

Menschenmenge

Gedränge

turba

kalabalık

moltitudine

multitud

Schar

Haufen

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/kɹaʊd/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: crouden

Hérité de ancien anglais: crūdan

Appartenant à néerlandais: kruien

In summary

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”).

Phrases

As soon as he saw me among the crowd , he called to me to come down .

Dès qu'il m'a vu parmi la foule, il m'a appelé à descendre.

I found a little crowd of about twenty people surrounding the huge hole .

J'ai trouvé une petite foule d'une vingtaine de personnes entourant l'énorme trou.

Elizabeth tells the angry crowd to let Abigail live .

Elizabeth dit à la foule en colère de laisser Abigail vivre.

A woman wearing a white glove peers over the crowd .

It's a dense crowd in two distinct ways .

C'est une foule dense de deux manières distinctes.