crowd
1a large number of persons gathered closely together; throng: a crowd of angry people.
any large number of persons.
any group or set of persons with something in common: The restaurant attracts a theater crowd.
audience; attendance: Opening night drew a good crowd.
the common people; the masses: He feels superior to the crowd.
a large number of things gathered or considered together.
Sociology. a temporary gathering of people responding to common stimuli and engaged in any of various forms of collective behavior.
to press closely together; force into a confined space; cram: to crowd clothes into a suitcase.
to fill to excess; fill by pressing or thronging into.
to place under pressure or stress by constant solicitation: to crowd a debtor for payment; to crowd someone with embarrassing questions.
Idioms about crowd
crowd on sail, Nautical. to carry a press of sail.
Origin of crowd
1synonym study For crowd
Grammar notes for crowd
Other words for crowd
Other words from crowd
- crowder, noun
Other definitions for crowd (2 of 2)
an ancient Celtic musical instrument with the strings stretched over a rectangular frame, played with a bow.
Origin of crowd
2- Also called rota [roh-tuh], /ˈroʊ tə/, rote [roht], /roʊt/, rotta [rot-uh], /ˈrɒt ə/, rotte [rot] /rɒt/ .
- Also crwth [krooth] /kruθ/ .
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How to use crowd in a sentence
“He might want 50 of this size and 40 of these,” said Crowder, who has been named as a defendant in dozens of lawsuits.
Patients Screwed in Spine Surgery ‘Scam’ | The Center for Investigative Reporting | November 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe ones Crowder recalls making also were prototypes, he believed.
Patients Screwed in Spine Surgery ‘Scam’ | The Center for Investigative Reporting | November 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA few years ago, Crowder stopped making the screws because Spinal Solutions was unwilling to pay a fair price, he said.
Patients Screwed in Spine Surgery ‘Scam’ | The Center for Investigative Reporting | November 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThere was some “old stuff” in his shop, Crowder acknowledged, but also modern equipment and a quality control system.
Patients Screwed in Spine Surgery ‘Scam’ | The Center for Investigative Reporting | November 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTCrowder is wary of journalists from outside the conservative world.
General Crowder's famous "work or fight" alternative was a sufficient witness of this fact.
By his own confession this man Genz is party to a conspiracy with Gorgett, and you and Crowder are witnesses to the confession.
In the Arena | Booth TarkingtonAnd about incidentally showing you and Crowder up as bribing Genz and promising to protect him—making your methods public?
In the Arena | Booth TarkingtonCrowder pays, of course, in the usual way; but his rival is not to be outdone by such liberality.
I am apt to object to people of superior judgment, but Mr. Crowder was an exception to the ordinary superior person.
The Vizier of the Two-Horned Alexander | Frank R. Stockton
British Dictionary definitions for crowd (1 of 2)
/ (kraʊd) /
a large number of things or people gathered or considered together
a particular group of people, esp considered as a social or business set: the crowd from the office
the crowd the common people; the masses
(as modifier): crowd ideas
follow the crowd to conform with the majority
(intr) to gather together in large numbers; throng
(tr) to press together into a confined space
(tr) to fill to excess; fill by pushing into
(tr) informal to urge or harass by urging
crowd on sail nautical to hoist as much sail as possible
Origin of crowd
1Derived forms of crowd
- crowded, adjective
- crowdedly, adverb
- crowdedness, noun
- crowder, noun
British Dictionary definitions for crowd (2 of 2)
/ (kraʊd) /
music an ancient bowed stringed instrument; crwth
Origin of crowd
2Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with crowd
see follow the crowd; three's a crowd.
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