Definitions for crowd

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Spelling: [kroud]

IPA: /kraʊd/

Crowd is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 48 anagrams from letters in crowd (cdorw).

Definitions for crowd

noun

1. a large number of persons gathered closely together; throng:
2. any large number of persons.
3. any group or set of persons with something in common:
4. audience; attendance:
5. the common people; the masses:
6. a large number of things gathered or considered together.
7. Sociology. a temporary gathering of people responding to common stimuli and engaged in any of various forms of collective behavior.
8. an ancient Celtic musical instrument with the strings stretched over a rectangular frame, played with a bow.

Idioms

1. crowd on sail, Nautical. to carry a press of sail.

verb (used with object)

1. to press closely together; force into a confined space; cram:
2. to push; shove.
3. to fill to excess; fill by pressing or thronging into.
4. to place under pressure or stress by constant solicitation:

verb (used without object)

1. to gather in large numbers; throng; swarm.
2. to press forward; advance by pushing.

Origin of crowd

before 950; Middle English crowden, Old English crūden to press, hurry; cognate with Middle Dutch crūden to push (Dutch kruien)

Examples for crowd

As he tried to make his way through a crowd of mourners late last month, he looked preoccupied and even disoriented.

“He is borrowing my voice to tell you this story,” she told the crowd.

One guy hams it up as Juliet, blonde wig and all, as a crowd gathers, delighted by the impromptu performance.

“Now they will definitely lock Navalny in prison,” one of the women in the crowd said.

But when I look out over the crowd now, I also see that they are trapped—trapped by their cowardice.

The address to the crowd at the Capitol was broadcast on a loudspeaker.

It had been vaguely present in his mind when he faced the crowd at Martindale, he remembered now.

The crowd surged about the ticker, and their voices came as from afar.

This was responded to by a roar of satisfaction from the crowd below.

At Gawler we were received by a crowd of people, and flags were flying to do us honour.