Sekirov Dictionary

crowd

/ˈkɹaʊ̯d/

noun 5
verb 9
forms 5
phrases 10

noun5

•
a big group of people close together in one place
- After the movie let out, a crowd of people pushed through the exit doors.
•
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.
•
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.
•
The so-called lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar.
- He went not, with the Crowd, to see a Shrine — 1700
•
(dialect) A fiddle.
- That keep their Consciences in Cases, / As Fiddlers do their Crowds and Bases,[…] — 1663

verb9

•
To press together or collect in numbers.
- They crowded through the archway and into the park.
•
To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
- He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen.
•
To fill by pressing or thronging together
- The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign. — 1875
•
To press forward; to advance by pushing.
- The man crowded into the packed room.
•
To push, to press, to shove.
- They tried to crowd her off the sidewalk.
To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
•
(no longer used) To play on a crowd; to fiddle.
- Fiddlers, crowd on, crowd on. — 1656

forms

crowded · crowding · crowdeth · crowds · crowdest

Phrases with crowd

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