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Definitions for: Crowd
[n] a large number of things or people considered together; "a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers"
[n] an informal body of friends; "he still hangs out with the same crowd"
[v] to gather together in large numbers; "men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah"
[v] cause to herd, drive, or crowd together; "We herded the children into a spare classroom"
[v] approach a certain age or speed; "She is pushing fifty"
[v] fill or occupy to the point of overflowing; "The students crowded the auditorium"
Webster (1913) Definition: Crowd (kroud), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crowded; p. pr. &
vb. n. Crowding.] [OE. crouden, cruden, AS. cr?dan; 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. --Prescott.
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. i.
1. To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to
throng.
The whole company crowded about the fire. --Addison.
Images came crowding on his mind faster than he
could put them into words. --Macaulay.
2. To urge or press forward; to force one's self; as, a man
crowds into a room.
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. --Pope.
2. A number of persons congregated or collected into a close
body without order; a throng.
The crowd of Vanity Fair. --Macaulay.
Crowds that stream from yawning doors. --Tennyson.
3. The lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar; the
rabble; the mob.
To fool the crowd with glorious lies. --Tennyson.
He went not with the crowd to see a shrine.
--Dryden.
Syn: Throng; multitude. See Throng.
Crowd, n. [W. crwth; akin to Gael. cruit. Perh. named
from its shape, and akin to Gr. kyrto`s 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.
--B. Jonson.
Crowd, v. t.
To play on a crowd; to fiddle. [Obs.] ``Fiddlers, crowd on.''
--Massinger.
Synonyms: bunch, crew, crowd together, gang, push
See Also: approach, army, assemblage, collect, come near, come on, congregate, crush, displace, draw close, draw near, drove, fill, flock, gather, gathering, go up, herd, horde, huddle, jam, jam, mass, mob, mob, move, near, occupy, overcrowd, pack, phalanx, pile, pour, press, pullulate, rabble, rout, stream, swarm, swarm, teem, throng, troop
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