crowd

[Crowd]

A lot of people or things in a large group make up a crowd. The masses of performers with painted faces, big shoes, and squeaky noses filling up the streets during your town's annual clown parade can be described as a crowd of clowns.

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To push, to press, to shove.

Noun
a large number of things or people considered together; "a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers"

Noun
an informal body of friends; "he still hangs out with the same crowd"

Verb
to gather together in large numbers; "men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah"

Verb
cause to herd, drive, or crowd together; "We herded the children into a spare classroom"

Verb
approach a certain age or speed; "She is pushing fifty"

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Verb
fill or occupy to the point of overflowing; "The students crowded the auditorium"


v. t.
To push, to press, to shove.

v. t.
To press or drive together; to mass together.

v. t.
To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity.

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

v. i.
To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.

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

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

v. t.
A number of persons congregated or collected into a close body without order; a throng.

v. t.
The lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar; the rabble; the mob.

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

v. t.
To play on a crowd; to fiddle.


Crowd

Crowd (kroud), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crowded; p. pr. & vb. n. Crowding.] [OE. crouden, cruden, AS. crdan; cf. D. kruijen to push in a wheelbarrow.] 1. To push, to press, to shove. Chaucer. 2. To press or drive together; to mass together. "Crowd us and crush us." Shak. 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

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.

Crowd

Crowd, n. [AS. croda. See Crowd, v. t. ] 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.
Syn. -- Throng; multitude. See Throng.

Crowd

Crowd, n. [W. crwth; akin to Gael. cruit. Perh. named from its shape, and akin to Gr. curved, and E. curve. Cf. Rote.] An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow. [Written also croud, crowth, cruth, and crwth.]
A lackey that . . . can warble upon a crowd a little.

Crowd

Crowd, v. t. To play on a crowd; to fiddle. [Obs.] "Fiddlers, crowd on." Massinger.

To push, to press, to shove.

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

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

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

To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

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Usage Examples

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.

A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business, live concerts.

I think a lot of young kids at school are very conscious of trying to keep credibility in case they kind of stand out in a crowd and get bullied by trying to stay cool and stuff. And my whole thing, all the way through school, was I was just a goof... I didn't care.

I have a kind of boring personal life, to the paparazzi anyway, and I don't hang with the cool crowd.

In my teens, I was never part of the cool crowd.

For a long time the people at my shows were sort of the Pantera-tattoo trucker guys, really cool dudes, but I don't know what happened to them. That's the crowd that I like, the ones that don't get so offended just to be offended.

I think what every skater dreams of is not only skating the best program they can possibly skate, but, y'know, having the crowd roar at the end, and it was just so loud I couldn't even hear my music.

And I thought that was the best way for me to participate, because standing in the crowd and listening is a fantastic education, but it's not my nature. I need to be involved. So I did that instead.

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Other Usage Examples

Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or require higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save, invest, innovate, and work.

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

I'm talking like 10, 12 years old. Either junior brings Mom and Pop or Mom and Pop bring the kids. I'm talking young here, not a college drinking crowd.

If you have to fight a crowd of boys, it's best to go for the biggest one. That way you won't have to fight them all. The others will see that you mean business and you will win their respect.

If guys don't respect themselves, they don't respect other people. That's times and personalities. And all of them are not that way. But it don't take but one or two to screw up the whole crowd.

I'm part of the party, getting the crowd fired up, singing songs, pouring drinks, whatever it takes to get them to have a good time. When I walk into the meet-and-greet, someone's always going to have a story, a sad story or a happy story.

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.

Don't underestimate questions from the crowd technology has made voters more informed than ever.

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