crowd

Meaning

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.

Synonyms

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

Translations

foule

folla

Menge

muchedumbre

menigte

multidão

multitud

massa

Menschenmenge

Gedränge

masse

turba

groupe

kalabalık

moltitudine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kɹaʊd/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: crouden

Inherited from Old English: crūdan

Cognate with Dutch: 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”).

Sentences

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

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

Elizabeth tells the angry crowd to let Abigail live .

A woman wearing a white glove peers over the crowd .

It's a dense crowd in two distinct ways .