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crew

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: kroo?, IPA(key): /k?u?/
  • Rhymes: -u?
  • Homophones: crewe, Crewe, cru

Etymology 1

From Middle English crue, from Old French creue (an increase, recruit, military reinforcement), the feminine past participle of creistre (grow), from Latin crescere (to arise, grow).

Noun

crew (plural crews)

  1. A group of people together
    1. (obsolete) Any company of people; an assemblage; a throng.
    2. A group of people (often staff) manning and operating a large facility or piece of equipment such as a factory, ship, boat, airplane, or spacecraft.
    3. A group of people working together on a task.
    4. (art) The group of workers on a dramatic production who are not part of the cast.
    5. (informal, often derogatory) A close group of friends.
    6. (often derogatory) A set of individuals lumped together by the speaker.
      • 1861 William Weston Patton, (version of) John Brown's Body
        He captured Harper’s Ferry, with his nineteen men so few,
        And frightened "Old Virginny" till she trembled thru and thru;
        They hung him for a traitor, they themselves the traitor crew,
        But his soul is marching on.
    7. (Scouting) A group of Rovers.
    8. (slang, hip-hop) A hip-hop group
    9. (rowing) A rowing team manning a single shell.
  2. A person in a crew
    1. (plural: crew) A member of the crew of a vessel or plant.
    2. (art, plural: crew) A worker on a dramatic production who is not part of the cast.
    3. (nautical, plural: crew) A member of a ship's company who is not an officer.
  3. (sports, rowing, US, uncountable) The sport of competitive rowing.
    • 1973, University of Virginia Undergraduate Record
      The University of Virginia belongs to the Atlantic Coast Conference and competes interscholastically in basketball, baseball, crew, cross country, fencing, football, golf, indoor track, lacrosse, polo, soccer, swimming, tennis, track, and wrestling.
Synonyms
  • (group manning a vessel): ship's company, all hands, complement
  • (group engaged in a task): team, gang
  • (non-cast dramatic personnel): staff, stagehands
  • (social group): clique, gang, pack, crowd, bunch, lot (UK); posse
  • (group lumped together): crowd, flock, lot, gang
  • (hip-hop group): posse, band, group
  • (member of a crew): crewer, member, crewmember; nautical only: sailor, seaman
  • (non-officer ship worker): seaman
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

crew (third-person singular simple present crews, present participle crewing, simple past and past participle crewed)

  1. (transitive and intransitive) To be a member of a vessel's crew
  2. To be a member of a work or production crew
  3. To supply workers or sailors for a crew
  4. (nautical) To do the proper work of a sailor
  5. (nautical) To take on, recruit (new) crew
Derived terms
  • crewer
  • uncrewed
  • crew up
Translations

Etymology 2

Verb

crew

  1. (Britain, archaic) simple past tense of crow (make the characteristic sound of a rooster).
    It was still dark when the cock crew.

Etymology 3

Probably of Brythonic origin.

Noun

crew (plural crews)

  1. (Britain, dialectal) A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs
Derived terms
  • crewyard

Etymology 4

Noun

crew (plural crews)

  1. The Manx shearwater.

Gallery

See also

  • Appendix:Dictionary notes/crew
  • Crew on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Spanish

Noun

crew m (plural crews)

  1. crew

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guild

English

Alternative forms

  • gild

Etymology

From Middle English gilde, from Old Norse gildi (payment, guild). Related to geld, yield, yauld.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??ld/
  • Rhymes: -?ld
  • Homophones: gild, gilled

Noun

guild (plural guilds)

  1. A group or association mainly of tradespeople made up of merchants, craftspeople, or artisans for mutual aid, particularly in the Middle Ages.
  2. A corporation.
  3. (ecology) A group of diverse species that share common characteristics or habits.
  4. (video games) An organized group of players who regularly play together in a multiplayer game.

Synonyms

  • (medieval professional associations): Hanse (merchants)
  • (modern professional associations): trade union, union, professional association

Translations

See also

  • (meeting place): guild hall, guildhall, guildsman, guildswoman, common house, common hall

References

  • The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, 2000, Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009
  • Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, HarperCollins Publishers, 2003

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