Crowd word meaning and definition

[noun] a large number of things or people considered together; "a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers"
[noun] an informal body of friends; "he still hangs out with the same crowd"
[verb] to gather together in large numbers; "men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah"
[verb] cause to herd, drive, or crowd together; "We herded the children into a spare classroom"
[verb] approach a certain age or speed; "She is pushing fifty"
[verb] fill or occupy to the point of overflowing; "The students crowded the auditorium"

\Crowd\ (kroud), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crowded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Crowding}.] [OE. crouden, cruden, AS. cr?dan; cf. D. kruijen to push in a wheelbarrow.] 1. To push, to press, to shove. --Chaucer. 2. To press or drive together; to mass together. ``Crowd us and crush us.'' --Shak. 3. To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity. The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign. --Prescott. 4. To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably. [Colloq.] {To crowd out}, to press out; specifically, to prevent the publication of; as, the press of other matter crowded out the article. {To crowd sail} (Naut.), to carry an extraordinary amount of sail, with a view to accelerate the speed of a vessel; to carry a press of sail.
\Crowd\, v. i. 1. To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng. The whole company crowded about the fire. --Addison. Images came crowding on his mind faster than he could put them into words. --Macaulay. 2. To urge or press forward; to force one's self; as, a man crowds into a room.
\Crowd\, n. [AS. croda. See {Crowd}, v. t. ] 1. A number of things collected or closely pressed together; also, a number of things adjacent to each other. A crowd of islands. --Pope. 2. A number of persons congregated or collected into a close body without order; a throng. The crowd of Vanity Fair. --Macaulay. Crowds that stream from yawning doors. --Tennyson. 3. The lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar; the rabble; the mob. To fool the crowd with glorious lies. --Tennyson. He went not with the crowd to see a shrine. --Dryden. Syn: Throng; multitude. See {Throng}.
\Crowd\, n. [W. crwth; akin to Gael. cruit. Perh. named from its shape, and akin to Gr. kyrto`s curved, and E. curve. Cf. {Rote}.] An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow. [Written also {croud}, {crowth}, {cruth}, and {crwth}.] A lackey that . . . can warble upon a crowd a little. --B. Jonson.
\Crowd\, v. t. To play on a crowd; to fiddle. [Obs.] ``Fiddlers, crowd on.'' --Massinger.

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