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Word: crowd (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
  • A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
  • now dialectal A fiddle.
  • obsolete A crwth, an Ancient Celtic plucked string instrument.
  • 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, vulgar.

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Verb:

  • intransitive To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng
  • intransitive To urge or press forward; to force one's self; as, a man crowds into a room
  • nautical (''of a square-rigged ship'') transitive To carry excessive sail
  • nautical To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way
  • transitive To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity.
  • transitive To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
  • transitive To press or drive together; to mass together.
  • transitive To push, to press, to shove.

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