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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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collection
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French collection, from Latin coll?cti?, coll?cti?nem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??l?k??n/
- Rhymes: -?k??n
- Hyphenation: col?lec?tion
Noun
collection (countable and uncountable, plural collections)
- A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
- 1837, William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences
- collections of moisture
- 1887, Robert Bartholow, A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine
- a purulent collection
- 1837, William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences
- Multiple related objects associated as a group.
- The activity of collecting.
- (topology, mathematical analysis) A set of sets.
- A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
- (law) Debt collection.
- (obsolete) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
- (Britain) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
- (in the plural, Britain, Oxford University) A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
- The quality of being collected; calm composure.
Derived terms
Translations
French
Alternative forms
- c., coll. (abbreviations)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin coll?cti?, coll?cti?nem. Cf. also Old French quieuçon, which may be inherited from the same source, and the modern cueillaison, which was probably formed analogically.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?.l?k.sj??/
- Rhymes: -??
- Homophone: collections
- Hyphenation: col?lec?tion
Noun
collection f (plural collections)
- collection
Derived terms
- collec
- collectionner
- collectionneur
- collectionnite
Related terms
- collecte
- collecter
- cueillette
- cueillir
Further reading
- “collection” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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