CROWD

Crowd

A crowd is a small and definable group of people, while "the crowd" is referred to as the so-called lower orders of people in general . A crowd may be definable through a common purpose or set of emotions, such as at a political rally, at a sports event, or during looting, or simply be made up of many people going about their business in a busy area . Everybody in the context of general public or the common people is normally referred to as the masses.

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crowd

Noun

  1. A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
  2. Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
  3. (with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
  4. A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. A crwth, an Ancient Celtic plucked string instrument.
  2. A fiddle.

Verb

  1. To push, to press, to shove.
  2. To press or drive together; to mass together.
  3. To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity.
  4. To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
  5. To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way
  6. To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng
  7. To urge or press forward; to force oneself.
    A man crowds into a room.
  8. (of a square-rigged ship) To carry excessive sail

Verb (etymology 2)

  1. To play on a crowd; to fiddle.


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