different between crowd vs volge
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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volge
English
Etymology
From Latin vulgus.
Pronunciation
Noun
volge pl (plural only)
- (obsolete) The common people; the crowd; the mob.
- 1639, Thomas Fuller, The Historie of the Holy Warre
- he would profer to fight with any mean person, if cried up by the volge for a tall man
- 1639, Thomas Fuller, The Historie of the Holy Warre
Anagrams
- Vogel, glove, vogle
Dutch
Verb
volge
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of volgen
Anagrams
- golve, vloge, vogel
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?ld?e
Verb
volge
- third-person singular present indicative of volgere
Latin
Noun
volge
- vocative singular of volgus
References
- volge in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
volge From the web:
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- what does volgen mean
- what do voles eat
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