crowd

1. 1

   To press forward; to advance by pushing.intransitive

   • The man crowded into the packed room.
2. 2

   To press together or collect in numbers.intransitive

   • They crowded through the archway and into the park.
3. 3

   To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.transitive

   • He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen.
4. 4

   To fill by pressing or thronging togethertransitive

   • The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign.
5. 5

   To push, to press, to shove.oftentransitive

   • They tried to crowd her off the sidewalk.
6. 6

   To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.

7. 7

   To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.transitive

   • With all her might she crowds all sail off shore; in so doing, fights ’gainst the very winds that fain would blow her homeward; seeks all the lashed sea’s landlessness again; for refuge’s sake forlornly rushing into peril; her only friend h
8. 8

   To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.transitive

syn. becrowd

1. 1

   A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.

   • After the movie let out, a crowd of people pushed through the exit doors.
2. 2

   Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.

   • There was a crowd of toys pushed beneath the couch where the children were playing.
3. 3

   The so-called lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar.with-definite-article

   • He went not, with the Crowd, to ſee a Shrine;
   • […]To fool the crowd with glorious lies,[…]
4. 4

   A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.

   • That obscure author's fans were a nerdy crowd which hardly ever interacted before the Internet age.
   • We're concerned that our daughter has fallen in with a bad crowd.

syn. assemblage · congregation · crowd · flock · huddle · legion · press · slew · audience · group · multitude · public

1. 1

   Alternative form of crwth.alt-ofalternativeobsolete

   • A lackey that […] can warble upon a crowd a little.
2. 2

   A fiddle.dialectal

   • That keep their Consciences in Cases, / As Fiddlers do their Crowds and Bases,[…]
   • […]wandering palmers, hedge-priests, Saxon minstrels, and Welsh bards, were muttering prayers, and extracting mistuned dirges from their harps, crowds, and rotes.

syn. assemblage · congregation · crowd · flock · huddle · legion · press · slew · horde · mass · multitude · throng

1. 1

   To play on a crowd; to fiddle.intransitiveobsolete

   • Fiddlers, crowd on, crowd on.