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crowd
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?a?d/
- Rhymes: -a?d
Etymology 1
From Middle English crouden, from Old English cr?dan, from Proto-Germanic *kr?dan?, *kreudan?. Cognate with Dutch kruien.
Verb
crowd (third-person singular simple present crowds, present participle crowding, simple past and past participle crowded)
- (intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.
- (intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers
- Synonyms: swarm, throng, crowd in
- Images came crowding on his mind faster than he could put them into words.
- (transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
- (transitive) To fill by pressing or thronging together
- 1875, William Hickling Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain
- The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign.
- 1875, William Hickling Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain
- (transitive, often used with "out of" or "off") To push, to press, to shove.
- (nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
- (nautical, of a square-rigged ship, transitive) To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
- (transitive) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
Synonyms
- becrowd (dated)
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
crowd (plural crowds)
- A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
- Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
- (with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
- A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
Synonyms
- (group of things): aggregation, cluster, group, mass
- (group of people): audience, group, multitude, public, swarm, throng
- (the "lower orders" of people): everyone, general public, masses, rabble, mob, unwashed
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Inherited from Middle English crowde, from Welsh crwth or a Celtic cognate.
Noun
crowd (plural crowds)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of crwth
- 1600, Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels
- A lackey that […] can warble upon a crowd a little.
- 1600, Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels
- (now dialectal) A fiddle.
Derived terms
- crowder
Verb
crowd (third-person singular simple present crowds, present participle crowding, simple past and past participle crowded)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To play on a crowd; to fiddle.
- 1656, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, and Philip Massinger, The Old Law
- Fiddlers, crowd on, crowd on.
- 1656, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, and Philip Massinger, The Old Law
References
crowd in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- c-word
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audient
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin audientem, accusative singular of audi?ns (“hearing, listening; attending, paying attention to”) (or directly from audi?ns), the present active participle of audi? (“to hear, listen to; to attend, pay attention to”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?ewis (“clearly, manifestly”) (from *h?ew- (“to perceive, see”)) + *d?h?-ye/o- (“to render”).
The noun may be borrowed from Late Latin audi?ns (“catechumen”), from the participle audi?ns.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /???.d?.?nt/
- Hyphenation: au?di?ent
Adjective
audient (not comparable)
- Listening, paying attention. [from mid 16th c.]
- Synonyms: attentive, (uncommon) reckful
Derived terms
- audiently
Related terms
Translations
Noun
audient (plural audients)
- (obsolete) A hearer; a member of an audience
- (obsolete, specifically) A catechumen (“convert to Christianity under instruction before baptism”) in the early Christian Church.
References
- audient in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- auntied, edutain
Latin
Verb
audient
- third-person plural future active indicative of audi?
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