different between crowd vs dominion

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)

1. (intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.

2. (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.

3. (transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
4. (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.

5. (transitive, often used with "out of" or "off") To push, to press, to shove.
6. (nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
7. (nautical, of a square-rigged ship, transitive) To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
8. (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)

1. A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
2. Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.

3. (with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
4. 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)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of crwth
   • 1600, Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels

     A lackey that […] can warble upon a crowd a little.

2. (now dialectal) A fiddle.

Derived terms

• crowder

Verb

crowd (third-person singular simple present crowds, present participle crowding, simple past and past participle crowded)

1. (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.

References

crowd in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• c-word

English

Etymology

From Middle English dominion, from Middle French dominion, from Medieval Latin dominio, equiv. to Latin dominium (“lordship, right of ownership”), from dominus (“lord”), from domus (“house”). See demain, demesne, domain, dominium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??m?nj?n/, /do??m?nj?n/
• Rhymes: -?nj?n
• Hyphenation: do?min?ion

Noun

dominion (countable and uncountable, plural dominions)

1. Power or the use of power; sovereignty over something; stewardship, supremacy.
   • 1881, Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides Translated into English

     To choose between dominion or slavery.
2. predominance; ascendancy
   • 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy

     Objects placed foremost ought […] have dominion over things which are confus'd and transient.

3. (sometimes figuratively) A kingdom, nation, or other sphere of influence; governed territory.
4. (taxonomy) kingdom
5. (biblical tradition) An order of angel in Christian angelology, ranked above virtues and below thrones.

   Synonym: domination

Related terms

• dominate
• domination
• dominator
• domineering
• domino
• subdominion

Translations

Further reading

• dominion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• dominion in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Finnish

Noun

dominion

1. Genitive singular form of dominio.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?.mi.nj??/

Noun

dominion m (plural dominions)

1. dominion

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English dominion, from Latin dominium

Noun

dominion m (definite singular dominionen, indefinite plural dominioner or dominions, definite plural dominionene)

1. a dominion

Usage notes

The use of dominions as indefinite plural may be from Danish via Riksmål.

References

• “dominion” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “dominion” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English dominion, from Latin dominium

Noun

dominion m (definite singular dominionen, indefinite plural dominionar, definite plural dominionane)

1. a dominion

References

• “dominion” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

From French dominion

Noun

dominion n (plural dominioane)

1. dominion

Declension