crowd

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To press forward

   To press forward; to advance by pushing.

   • The man crowded into the packed room.
2. 2

   To press together or collect in numbers.

   • They crowded through the archway and into the park.
   • [T]he whole company closed their ranks, and crowded about the fire.
   • Images came crowding on his mind faster than he could put them into words.
3. 3

   To press or drive together, especially into a small space

   To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.

   • He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen.
   • […]The Time (miſ-order’d) doth in common ſence / Crowd vs, and cruſh vs, to this monſtrous Forme, / To hold our ſafetie vp.
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   1. 4

      To fill by pressing or thronging together

      • The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign.
   2. 5

      To push, to press, to shove.

      • They tried to crowd her off the sidewalk.
      • Alexis's mementos and numerous dance trophies were starting to crowd her out of her little bedroom.
   3. 6

      To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.

   4. 7

      To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.

   5. 8

      To press by solicitation

      To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.

   6. 9

      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.
      • 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.
   7. 10

      Several things collected or closely pressed together

      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.
   8. 11

      The so-called lower orders of people

      The so-called lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar.

      • He went not, with the Crowd, to ſee a Shrine;
      • […]To fool the crowd with glorious lies,[…]
   9. 12

      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.
      • We're concerned that our daughter has fallen in with a bad crowd.
      • Maybe it was time I joined the crowd and bought a few of those for my own office.
   10. 13

       Alternative form of crwth.

       • A lackey that […] can warble upon a crowd a little.
   11. 14

       A fiddle.

       • That keep their Consciences in Cases, / As Fiddlers do their Crowds and Bases,[…]
       • […]wandering palmers, hedge-priests, Saxon minstrels, and Welsh bards, were muttering prayers, and extracting mistuned dirges from their harps, crowds, and rotes.
   12. 15

       To play on a crowd

       To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

       • Fiddlers, crowd on, crowd on.

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• synonymbecrowd
• synonymassemblage
• synonymcongregation
• synonymcrowd
• synonymflock
• synonymhuddle
• synonymlegion
• synonympress
• synonymslew
• synonymaudiencegroup of people
• synonymgroupgroup of people
• synonymmultitudegroup of people
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