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Crowd   /kraʊd/   Listen
noun
Crowd  n.  
1.
A number of things collected or closely pressed together; also, a number of things adjacent to each other. "A crowd of islands."
2.
A number of persons congregated or collected into a close body without order; a throng. "The crowd of Vanity Fair." "Crowds that stream from yawning doors."
3.
The lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar; the rabble; the mob. "To fool the crowd with glorious lies." "He went not with the crowd to see a shrine."
Synonyms: Throng; multitude. See Throng.


Crowd  n.  (Written also croud, crowth, cruth, and crwth)  An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow. "A lackey that... can warble upon a crowd a little."


verb
Crowd  v. t.  (past & past part. crowded; pres. part. crowding)  
1.
To push, to press, to shove.
2.
To press or drive together; to mass together. "Crowd us and crush us."
3.
To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity. "The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign."
4.
To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably. (Colloq.)
To crowd out, to press out; specifically, to prevent the publication of; as, the press of other matter crowded out the article.
To crowd sail (Naut.), to carry an extraordinary amount of sail, with a view to accelerate the speed of a vessel; to carry a press of sail.


Crowd  v. t.  To play on a crowd; to fiddle. (Obs.) "Fiddlers, crowd on."


Crowd  v. i.  
1.
To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng. "The whole company crowded about the fire." "Images came crowding on his mind faster than he could put them into words."
2.
To urge or press forward; to force one's self; as, a man crowds into a room.





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"Crowd" Quotes from Famous Books



... to the Baptist's this evening, and went home by way of Centre Street to avoid the crowd. Crowds are not ...
— How to Camp Out • John M. Gould
... rather blindly through the wharves, reading it. A Japanese boat was loading; smells of garlic and of spice and sandalwood were wafted to her from the holds and weaved into her thoughts of Louis; a little further along there was a crowd of stevedores clustered in the roadway round a violent smell of whisky. She turned away, sickened by her memories of that smell, with her father's ghost and Louis's at her side, but uncontrollable curiosity made her press on again. ...
— Captivity • M. Leonora Eyles
... incomprehensible beauty there is nothing that can be compared with it. Here, if anywhere, we look upon the spectacle of creation in one of its earliest stages. The Andromeda Nebula is apparently less advanced toward transformation into stellar bodies than is that in Triangulum. The immense crowd of stars sprinkled over it and its neighborhood seem in the main to lie this side of the nebula, and consequently to have no connection with it. But incipient stars (in some places clusters of them) are seen in the nebulous rings, while one or two huge masses seem to give promise ...
— Curiosities of the Sky • Garrett Serviss
... where the conquered and submitting fair one usually sinks into the arms of her partner, need it be said that the ingenious Enriquez was found in the center of the floor supporting four of the dancers! Yet he was by no means unduly excited either by the plaudits of the crowd or by his evident success with the fair. "Ah, believe me, it is nothing," he said quietly, rolling a fresh cigarette as he leaned against the doorway. "Possibly, I shall have to offer the chocolate or the wine to thees girls, or make to them a promenade in ...
— Selected Stories • Bret Harte
... be a lark, Coote," said Heathcote, as the two strode on, arm in arm, followed by a small crowd of juniors, who, seeing they were "on the swagger," hoped to be in the sport as spectators. "Tell you what; we'll have a walk round the roofs. I know where we can get up. We can get nearly all round the Quad. Won't it ...
— Follow My leader - The Boys of Templeton • Talbot Baines Reed


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