crowd
//ˈkɹaʊ̯d//
Forms
- present (v1)
- crowd
- past (v2)
- crowded
- past participle (v3)
- crowded
- present participle
- crowding
- 3rd person singular
- crowds
- Plural
- crowds
Definitions
1.To press forward; to advance by pushing.
- The man crowded into the packed room.
2.To press together or collect in numbers.
- They crowded through the archway and into the park.
- Images came crowding on his mind faster than he could put them into words.
3.To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
- He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen.
4.To fill by pressing or thronging together
- The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign.
1.A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
- After the movie let out, a crowd of people pushed through the exit doors.
- Athelstan Arundel walked home[…], foaming and raging. […] He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
2.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.
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.
- We're concerned that our daughter has fallen in with a bad crowd.
- Maybe it was time I joined the crowd and bought a few of those for my own office.
- That obscure author's fans were a nerdy crowd which hardly ever interacted before the Internet age.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1458
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Uncommon
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”).