crowd

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɹaʊ̯d/, [ˈkʰɹʷaʊ̯d] (/aʊ̯/-fronting) (Southern US, Midland US, Mid-Atlantic US, New York City, General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈkɹæʊ̯d/, [ˈkʰɹʷæʊ̯d] (/aʊ̯/-monophthongization) (Pittsburgh, General South African) IPA(key): /ˈkɹaːd/, [ˈkʰɹʷaːd] Rhymes: -aʊd Hyphenation: crowd === Etymology 1 === From Middle English crouden, from Old English crūdan, from Proto-West Germanic *krūdan, from Proto-Germanic *krūdaną, *kreudaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *grewt- (“to push; press”). Cognate with German Low German kroden (“to push, shove”), Dutch kruien (“to push, shove”). (group of people, mob): Compare typologically throng (<<~ Proto-Germanic *þrinhwaną); Czech dav (akin to Russian дави́ть (davítʹ), да́вка (dávka)); Polish ciżba, ścisk (<~ ciskać, akin to ти́скать (tískatʹ)); Polish tłok, Russian толчея́ (tolčejá) (akin to толка́ть (tolkátʹ)). ==== 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. Synonym: barge (intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers. Synonyms: swarm, throng, crowd in, crush, pile, horde (transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram. (transitive) To fill by pressing or thronging together (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; the 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, horde (the "lower orders" of people): everyone, general public, hoi polloi, masses, rabble, mob, tag-rag, 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. (now dialectal) A fiddle. ===== Derived terms ===== ==== 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. === References === “crowd”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. === Anagrams === c-word