crowd

Meanings

Plural: crowds

Noun

• a large number of things or people considered together
  • "a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers"
• an informal body of friends
  • "he still hangs out with the same crowd"
• 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.
• The so-called lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar.
• A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
• Alternative form of crwth.
• A fiddle.

Verb

• cause to herd, drive, or crowd together
• fill or occupy to the point of overflowing
  • "The students crowded the auditorium"
• to gather together in large numbers
  • "men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah"
• approach a certain age or speed
• To press forward; to advance by pushing.
• To press together or collect in numbers.
• To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
• To fill by pressing or thronging together
• To push, to press, to shove.
• To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
• To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
• To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
• To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

Synonyms

aggregation, assemblage, audience, becrowd, bunch, cluster, congregation, crew, crowd, crowd in, crowd together, crush, everyone, flock, gang, general public, group, herd, hoi polloi, horde, huddle, legion, mass, masses, mob, multitude, press, public, push, rabble, slew, swarm, tag-rag, throng, unwashed

Related Words

assemble, masses, populace, public