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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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thring
English
Alternative forms
- dring (dialectal)
Etymology
From Middle English thringen, from Old English þringan (“to press, squeeze, crowd”), from Proto-Germanic *þrinhwan? (“to press, throng, crush”), from Proto-Indo-European *trenk?- (“to beat, hew, press”).
Verb
thring (third-person singular simple present thrings, present participle thringing, simple past thrang, past participle thrung)
- (transitive, Northern England, Scotland) To thrust; crowd; press; squeeze.
- (intransitive, Northern England, Scotland) To push; to force one's way.
Synonyms
- (crowd): mass, throng; see also Thesaurus:assemble
- (squeeze): compress, condense; see also Thesaurus:compress
Related terms
- thrang
- throng
Translations
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