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crowd

Pronunciation: /ˈkɹaʊ̯d/

The English word “crowd” has 14 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To press forward; to advance by pushing.
  2. To press together or collect in numbers.
  3. To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
  4. To fill by pressing or thronging together
  5. To push, to press, to shove.
  6. To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
  7. To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
  8. To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
  9. To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

noun

  1. A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
  2. Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
  3. The so-called lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar.
  4. A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
  5. A fiddle.

Etymology

From Middle English crouden, from Old English crūdan, from Proto-West Germanic *krūdan, from Proto-Germanic *krūdaną, *kreudaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *grewt- (“to push; press”). Cognate with German Low German kroden (“to push, shove”), Dutch kruien (“to push, shove”). (group of people, mob): Compare typologically throng (<<~ Proto-Germanic *þrinhwaną); Czech dav (akin to Russian…

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