What does crowd mean?

Definitions for crowd
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Princeton's WordNet

  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

  1. CROWDnoun

    Etymology: cruð, Saxon.

    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.

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

    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.

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

    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.

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

  3. To Crowdverb

    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.

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

ChatGPT

  1. crowd

    A crowd refers to a large group of people gathered together in a particular place or space, forming a collective mass or gathering. Crowds can vary in size and purpose, ranging from social gatherings, protests, sporting events, or any other scenario where a large number of individuals come together. The presence of a crowd often implies a shared interest, objective, or activity that brings people together and fosters a sense of community or collective energy.

Webster Dictionary

  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.]

Wikidata

  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

  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

  1. Crowd

    Theatrical slang for members of a company collectively.

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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

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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. Mo Farah:

    Thank you so much everyone for the great support. It's great to do it on home soil with the crowd behind me all the way.

  2. Sally Outlaw:

    The number one myth [about crowdfunding] is the word ‘crowd’ itself, you have to go out there really one-to-one. It comes back down to personal relationships -- the success of a campaign.

  3. Mark Skilton:

    Covid-19 is an emergency on such a huge scale that, if anonymity is managed appropriately, internet giants and social media platforms could play a responsible part in helping to build collective crowd intelligence for social good, rather than profit.

  4. Ezra Blount:

    When my son went to the concert, he had my grandson on his shoulder, all the people pushed in and he could not breathe so he ended up passing out because of all the pressure that was being applied to his body. And when he passed out, Ezra fell off his shoulder and fell into the crowd.

  5. Eli Harold:

    What really pissed me off was when Kap was getting snaps at the end of the game and the crowd was booing, i’m not throwing shots at our fans. It’s not about that. Liberty and justice for all. Just because this man is standing up for something he believes in doesn’t give you the right to boo him. I just don’t understand it, man. I really don’t.

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