Definitions for crowd
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Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. crowdnoun

   a large number of things or people considered together

   "a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers"

2. crowd, crew, gang, bunchverb

   an informal body of friends

   "he still hangs out with the same crowd"

3. herd, crowdverb

   cause to herd, drive, or crowd together

   "We herded the children into a spare classroom"

4. crowdverb

   fill or occupy to the point of overflowing

   "The students crowded the auditorium"

5. crowd, crowd togetherverb

   to gather together in large numbers

   "men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah"

6. push, crowdverb

   approach a certain age or speed

   "She is pushing fifty"

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. CROWDnoun

   Etymology: cruð, Saxon.

   1. A multitude confusedly pressed together.2. A promiscuous medly, without order or distinction.

   He could then compare the confusion of a multitude to that tumult he had observed in the Icarian sea, dashing and breaking among its crowd of islands. Essay on Homer.

   3. The vulgar; the populace.

   He went not with the crowd to see a shrine,
   But fed us by the way, with food divine. John Dryden, Fables.

   4. [from crwth, Welsh.]A fiddle.

   His fiddle is your proper purchase,
   Won in the service of the churches;
   And by your doom must be allow’d
   To be, or be no more, a crowd. Hudibras, p. i. cant. 2.

2. To Crowdverb

   Etymology: from the noun.

   1. To fill with confused multitudes.

   A mind which is ever crowding its memory with things which it learns, may cramp the invention itself. Isaac Watts.

   2. To press close together.

   The time misorder’d, doth in common sense
   Crowd us and crush us to this monstrous form,
   To hold our safety up. William Shakespeare, Henry IV. p. ii.

   It seems probable, that the sea doth still grow narrower from age to age, and sinks more within its channel and the bowels of the earth, according as it can make its way into all those subterraneous cavities, and crowd the air out of them. Thomas Burnet, Theory of the Earth.

   As the mind itself is thought to take up no space, so its actions seem to require no time; but many of them seem to be crowded into an instant. John Locke.

   Then let us fill
   This little interval, this pause of life,
   With all the virtues we can crowd into it. Joseph Addison, Cato.

   3. To incumber by multitudes.

   How short is life! Why will vain courtiers toil,
   And crowd a vainer monarch for a smile? George Granville.

   4. To Crowd Sail. [A sea phrase.] To spread wide the sails upon the yards.

3. To Crowdverb

   1. To swarm; to be numerous and confused.

   They follow their undaunted king;
   Crowd through their gates; and in the fields of light,
   The shocking squadrons meet in mortal fight. John Dryden, Virgil.

   2. To thrust among a multitude.

   A mighty man, had not some cunning sin,
   Amidst so many virtues, crowded in. Abraham Cowley, Davideis.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Crowdverb

   to push, to press, to shove

2. Crowdverb

   to press or drive together; to mass together

3. Crowdverb

   to fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity

4. Crowdverb

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

5. Crowdverb

   to press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng

6. Crowdverb

   to urge or press forward; to force one's self; as, a man crowds into a room

7. Crowdverb

   a number of things collected or closely pressed together; also, a number of things adjacent to each other

8. Crowdverb

   a number of persons congregated or collected into a close body without order; a throng

9. Crowdverb

   the lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar; the rabble; the mob

10. Crowdnoun

    an ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow

11. Crowdverb

    to play on a crowd; to fiddle

12. Etymology: [W. crwth; akin to Gael. cruit. Perh. named from its shape, and akin to Gr. kyrto`s curved, and E. curve. Cf. Rote.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Crowd

   A crowd is a small and definable group of people, while "the crowd" is referred to as the so-called lower orders of people in general. A crowd may be definable through a common purpose or set of emotions, such as at a political rally, at a sports event, or during looting, or simply be made up of many people going about their business in a busy area. Everybody in the context of general public or the common people is normally referred to as the masses.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Crowd

   krowd, n. a number of persons or things closely pressed together, without order: the rabble: multitude.—v.t. to gather into a lump or crowd: to fill by pressing or driving together: to compress.—v.i. to press on: to press together in numbers: to swarm.—p.adj. Crowd′ed.—Crowd sail, to carry a press of sail for speed. [A.S. crúdan, to press.]

2. Crowd

   krowd, n. (obs.) an ancient musical instrument of the nature of the violin.—n. Crowd′er (obs.), a fiddler. [W. crwth, a hollow protuberance, a fiddle; Gael., Ir. cruit.]

Etymology and Origins(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Crowd

   Theatrical slang for members of a company collectively.

Matched Categories

1. • Approach
   • Gathering
   • Move
   • Occupy

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'crowd' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2384

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'crowd' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3466

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'crowd' in Nouns Frequency: #826

How to pronounce crowd?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of crowd in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of crowd in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of crowd in a Sentence

1. Laurence Wormald:

   Crowding and herding is the big problem with smart-beta, the illusion of being able to permanently depress the risk on equities through smart-beta or minimum-variance strategies has been very, very appealing, and a lot of money has piled in, but that delusion cannot be kept up because it's based on a strategy that doesn't work when the crowd arrives.

2. Steve Kerr:

   This is very temporary, you heard the crowd when he checked in. Draymond has been our heart and soul for a long time.

3. Olena Osipov of iFOODreal.com:

   Boneless turkey breast roast is the perfect main entrée if you are feeding a smaller crowd over the holidays, this method of stuffing the turkey breast with garlic, then rubbing it with fresh herbs is a nod to my Ukrainian roots where Mom cooked roasts the same way. They always turned out flavorful and this does, too.

4. James Sasinowski:

   This was intentional, it was aggressive and he accelerated into a crowd of protesters. He could have waited for us to pass or he could have gone slowly. We would have allowed him to go through.

5. Kyle Edmund:

   He qualified for the French Open and beat home player Stephane Robert with the whole crowd against him.

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