Pronunciations (6)
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/ˈkɹaʊ̯d/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
- Received-Pronunciation
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[ˈkʰɹʷaʊ̯d]
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
- Received-Pronunciation
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/ˈkɹæʊ̯d/
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[ˈkʰɹʷæʊ̯d]
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/ˈkɹaːd/
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[ˈkʰɹʷaːd]
Verb
To press forward; to advance by pushing.
Usage- Intransitive
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The man crowded into the packed room.
To press together or collect in numbers.
Usage- Intransitive
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They crowded through the archway and into the park.
[T]he whole company closed their ranks, and crowded about the fire.
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Images came crowding on his mind faster than he could put them into words.
To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
Usage- Transitive
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He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen.
[…]The Time (miſ-order’d) doth in common ſence / Crowd vs, and cruſh vs, to this monſtrous Forme, / To hold our ſafetie vp.
To fill by pressing or thronging together
Usage- Transitive
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The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign.
To push, to press, to shove.
Usage- often
- Transitive
- used with "out of" or "off"
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They tried to crowd her off the sidewalk.
Alexis's mementos and numerous dance trophies were starting to crowd her out of her little bedroom.
To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
Usage- Transitive
- of a square-rigged ship
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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 her bitterest foe!
To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
Usage- Transitive
Noun
A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
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After the movie let out, a crowd of people pushed through the exit doors.
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Athelstan Arundel walked home[…], foaming and raging. […] He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance.[…]But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again[…]she found her mother standing up before the seat on which she had sat all the evening searching anxiously for her with her eyes, and her father by her side.
Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
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There was a crowd of toys pushed beneath the couch where the children were playing.
The so-called lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar.
Usage- with-definite-article
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He went not, with the Crowd, to ſee a Shrine;
[…]To fool the crowd with glorious lies,[…]
A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
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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.
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Maybe it was time I joined the crowd and bought a few of those for my own office.
Noun
A fiddle.
Usage- dialectal
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That keep their Consciences in Cases, / As Fiddlers do their Crowds and Bases,[…]
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[…]wandering palmers, hedge-priests, Saxon minstrels, and Welsh bards, were muttering prayers, and extracting mistuned dirges from their harps, crowds, and rotes.
Verb
To play on a crowd; to fiddle.
Usage- Intransitive
- Obsolete
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Fiddlers, crowd on, crowd on.
Noun
a large number of things or people considered together
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a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers
an informal body of friends
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he still hangs out with the same crowd
Verb
cause to herd, drive, or crowd together
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We herded the children into a spare classroom
fill or occupy to the point of overflowing
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The students crowded the auditorium
to gather together in large numbers
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men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah
approach a certain age or speed
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She is pushing fifty