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noun

Crowd n.

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."

Synonyms: Throng; multitude. See Throng.

Crowd n. (Written also croud, crowth, cruth, and crwth) An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow. "A lackey that... can warble upon a crowd a little."

verb

Crowd v. t. (past & past part. crowded; pres. part. crowding)

1.

To push, to press, to shove.

2.

To press or drive together; to mass together. "Crowd us and crush us."

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 v. t. To play on a crowd; to fiddle. (Obs.) "Fiddlers, crowd on."

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.

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Etymology of 'Crowd'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Crowd" Quotes from Famous Books

... my beliefs rests on a profounder faith and broader proposition. It looks over and beyond the warring purposes of to-day as a general may look over and beyond a crowd of sullen, excited and confused recruits, to the day when they will be disciplined, exercised, trained, willing and convergent on a common end. It holds persistently to the idea of men increasingly working in agreement, ...

— First and Last Things • H. G. Wells

... ancient Tyre abandon'd lay, And thro' the temples and abodes of man, Fierce flames with undistinguish'd fury ran. Her sister hears the tumult of despair, She starts—she tears her breast, she reads her hair, 825 And wildly bursting thro' the gathering crowd, Calls on her dying sister's name aloud: Dido—Dear sister—how am I betray'd! For this, these flames—this pyre, these shrines I made. Oh what complaints for me forlorn suffice! 850 Could you, resolv'd to die, your friend ...

— The Fourth Book of Virgil's Aeneid and the Ninth Book of Voltaire's Henriad • Virgil and Voltaire

... we were greeted by a not unfriendly crowd of curious warriors and women, to whom Chal-az generously explained the service we had rendered him, whereupon they showered us with the most well-meant attentions, for Chal-az, it seemed, was a most ...

— The People that Time Forgot • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... is still further to be seen in the fact that she usually selects some bird for a victim that is smaller than herself, so that when her young hopefuls begin to grow they will be able to crowd or starve out the true heirs of the family. In this way it is thought that many a brood comes to an untimely end, the foster parents having no means of replacing their own little ones when they have been ejected from the nest. However, I doubt whether ...

— Our Bird Comrades • Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser

... royal garb it is on the Feast of Roses Sabbath. For days before the ceremony the homes of Greenwald are beehives of industry. That day each train and trolley, every country road, is crowded with strangers or old acquaintances coming into the town. A heterogeneous crowd swarms through the street. The curious visitor who comes to see, the dreamer who is attracted by the romance of the rose, the careless youth who rubs his sleeve against some portly judge or senator; ...

— Patchwork - A Story of 'The Plain People' • Anna Balmer Myers

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