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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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company
English
Alternative forms
- companie (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English companye (“a team; companionship”), from Old French compaignie (“companionship”) (Modern French: compagnie), possibly from Late Latin *compania, but this word is not attested. Old French compaignie is equivalent to Old French compaignon (Modern French: compagnon) + -ie. More at companion.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?k?mp(?)ni/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?k?mp?ni/
- Hyphenation: com?pany
Noun
company (countable and uncountable, plural companies)
- A team; a group of people who work together professionally.
- A group of individuals who work together for a common purpose.
- (military) A unit of approximately sixty to one hundred and twenty soldiers, typically consisting of two or three platoons and forming part of a battalion.
- A unit of firefighters and their equipment.
- (nautical) The entire crew of a ship.
- (espionage, informal) An intelligence service.
- A group of individuals who work together for a common purpose.
- A small group of birds or animals.
- (law) An entity having legal personality, and thus able to own property and to sue and be sued in its own name; a corporation.
- (business) Any business, whether incorporated or not, that manufactures or sells products (also known as goods), or provides services as a commercial venture.
- (uncountable) Social visitors or companions.
- (uncountable) Companionship.
Synonyms
- (in legal context, a corporation): corporation
- (group of individuals with a common purpose): association, companionship, fellowship, organization, society
- (companionship): fellowship, friendship, mateship
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
- accompany
- companion
- discompany
Descendants
- ? Hindi: ????? (kampn?)
Translations
Verb
company (third-person singular simple present companies, present participle companying, simple past and past participle companied)
- (archaic, transitive) To accompany, keep company with.
- (archaic, intransitive) To associate.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To be a lively, cheerful companion.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To have sexual intercourse.
- a. 1656, Joseph Hall, Epistle to Mr. I. F.
- companying with Infidels may not be simply condemned
- a. 1656, Joseph Hall, Epistle to Mr. I. F.
Synonyms
- (to accompany): attend, escort, go with
- (to have sexual intercourse): fornicate, have sex, make love; see also Thesaurus:copulate
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /kom?pa?/
- (Central) IPA(key): /kum?pa?/
Noun
company m (plural companys, feminine companya)
- companion, colleague
- partner, mate
Derived terms
- acompanyar
Related terms
- companyia
Further reading
- “company” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Middle English
Noun
company
- Alternative form of companye
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