different between krewe vs crew

English

Etymology

An intentionally archaic (or fanciful) spelling of crew, from the name of "The Mistick Krewe of Comus", the first such private organization.

Noun

krewe (plural krewes)

1. A private organization in New Orleans or elsewhere that exists to stage a Mardi Gras Ball, Mardi Gras Parade, or both.

Anagrams

• Kwere, werke

Afrikaans

Noun

krewe

1. plural of kreef

French

Noun

krewe m (plural krewes)

1. (chiefly Louisiana) a krewe
   • 2001, Bizier Richard, Louisiane, Pelican Publishing (?ISBN), page 165:

     Le choix du roi et de la reine varie d'un krewe à l'autre. Pour certains, c'est par tirage au sort; mais peu importe le procédé, la plupart exige une «royauté» pour régner. […]

     The choice of king and queen varies from one krewe to another. For some, it is by lot; but whatever the process, most require "royalty" to rule.

   • 2001, Hervé Beaumont, Louisiane, page 55:

     Ces organisations (les krewes) sont apparues dans les années 1830; […]

     These organizations (the krewes) appeared in the 1830s; […]

   • 2007, Laurie Paige, Passion en Louisiane (Saga Les Héritières de la Nouvelle-Orléans vol. 3), Harlequin (?ISBN):

     Nous sommes passés au musée pour prévenir son employeur, expliqua-t-elle. C'est lui qui nous a dit que son petit ami appartenait à l'une des krewe et que son père en serait le roi.

     We went to the museum to warn his employer, she explained. It was he who told us that her boyfriend belonged to one of the krewe[s] and that his father would be the king.

   • 2013, Matt Forbeck, Jeff Grubb, Guild Wars Tome 01: Les fantômes d'Ascalon, Panini (?ISBN):

     Une entrée en matière très inspirante! Nous ne sommes peutêtre pas une guilde, ni même une bande de guerre ou un krewe, et pas même une famille, mais nous sommes un groupe d'aventuriers réunis dans une seule et même mission.

     A very inspiring introduction! We may not be a guild, or even a war band or a krewe, and not even a family, but we are a group of adventurers united in one mission.

   • 2014, Norman Spinrad, Police du peuple, page 83:

     Toujours pas moyen pour les grands chars des krewes comme Bacchus et Rex et Endymion et Zulu de descendre Bourbon Street tandis que des célébrités desecond plan jetaient des colliers et des doublons aux masses frénétiques, […]

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: kroo?, IPA^(key): /k?u?/
• Rhymes: -u?
• Homophones: crewe, Crewe, cru

Etymology 1

From Middle English crue, from Old French creue (“an increase, recruit, military reinforcement”), the feminine past participle of creistre (“grow”), from Latin crescere (“to arise, grow”).

Noun

crew (plural crews)

1. A group of people together
   1. (obsolete) Any company of people; an assemblage; a throng.
   2. A group of people (often staff) manning and operating a large facility or piece of equipment such as a factory, ship, boat, airplane, or spacecraft.

   3. A group of people working together on a task.

   4. (art) The group of workers on a dramatic production who are not part of the cast.

   5. (informal, often derogatory) A close group of friends.

   6. (often derogatory) A set of individuals lumped together by the speaker.
      • 1861 William Weston Patton, (version of) John Brown's Body

        He captured Harper’s Ferry, with his nineteen men so few,

        And frightened "Old Virginny" till she trembled thru and thru;

        They hung him for a traitor, they themselves the traitor crew,

        But his soul is marching on.
   7. (Scouting) A group of Rovers.
   8. (slang, hip-hop) A hip-hop group
   9. (rowing) A rowing team manning a single shell.
2. A person in a crew
   1. (plural: crew) A member of the crew of a vessel or plant.

   2. (art, plural: crew) A worker on a dramatic production who is not part of the cast.

   3. (nautical, plural: crew) A member of a ship's company who is not an officer.

3. (sports, rowing, US, uncountable) The sport of competitive rowing.
   • 1973, University of Virginia Undergraduate Record

     The University of Virginia belongs to the Atlantic Coast Conference and competes interscholastically in basketball, baseball, crew, cross country, fencing, football, golf, indoor track, lacrosse, polo, soccer, swimming, tennis, track, and wrestling.

Synonyms

• (group manning a vessel): ship's company, all hands, complement
• (group engaged in a task): team, gang
• (non-cast dramatic personnel): staff, stagehands
• (social group): clique, gang, pack, crowd, bunch, lot (UK); posse
• (group lumped together): crowd, flock, lot, gang
• (hip-hop group): posse, band, group
• (member of a crew): crewer, member, crewmember; nautical only: sailor, seaman
• (non-officer ship worker): seaman

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

crew (third-person singular simple present crews, present participle crewing, simple past and past participle crewed)

1. (transitive and intransitive) To be a member of a vessel's crew

2. To be a member of a work or production crew

3. To supply workers or sailors for a crew
4. (nautical) To do the proper work of a sailor

5. (nautical) To take on, recruit (new) crew

Derived terms

• crewer
• uncrewed
• crew up

Translations

Etymology 2

Verb

crew

1. (Britain, archaic) simple past tense of crow (“make the characteristic sound of a rooster”).

   It was still dark when the cock crew.

Etymology 3

Probably of Brythonic origin.

Noun

crew (plural crews)

1. (Britain, dialectal) A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs

Derived terms

• crewyard

Etymology 4

Noun

crew (plural crews)

1. The Manx shearwater.

Gallery

See also

• Appendix:Dictionary notes/crew
• Crew on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Spanish

Noun

crew m (plural crews)

1. crew