Etymology : Middle English crouden, from Old English crudan; akin to Middle High German kroten to crowd, Old English crod multitude, Middle Irish gruth curds
Pronunciation : kraud
Function : verb
Date : before 12th century
1. public; large group of people; large number of objects grouped together. gather together, group together; press in. crowd\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.].
2. to push, to press, to shove.
3. to press or drive together; to mass together. "crowd us and crush us.".
4. 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.
5. to press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably. [colloq.].
6. To push, to press, to shove.
7. To press or drive together; to mass together.
8. To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity.
9. To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
10. To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.
11. To urge or press forward; to force one's self; as, a man crowds into a room.
12. A number of things collected or closely pressed together; also, a number of things adjacent to each other.
13. A number of persons congregated or collected into a close body without order; a throng.
14. The lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar; the rabble; the mob.
15. An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow.
16. To play on a crowd; to fiddle. a large number of things or people considered together; "a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers" an informal body of friends; "he still hangs out with the same crowd" to gather together in large numbers; "men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah" fill or occupy to the point of overflowing; "The students crowded the auditorium".
17. 1. A crowd is a large group of people who have gathered together, for example to watch or listen to something interesting, or to protest about something. A huge crowd gathered in a square outside the Kremlin walls The crowd were enormously enthusiastic The explosions took place in shopping centres as crowds of people were shopping for Mothers' Day. = throng.
18. A particular crowd is a group of friends, or a set of people who share the same interests or job. All the old crowd have come out for this occasion.
19. When people crowd around someone or something, they gather closely together around them. The hungry refugees crowded around the tractors Police blocked off the road as hotel staff and guests crowded around. = cluster.
20. If people crowd into a place or are crowded into a place, large numbers of them enter it so that it becomes very full. Hundreds of thousands of people have crowded into the center of the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius One group of journalists were crowded into a minibus `Bravo, bravo,' chanted party workers crowded in the main hall. = pack, cram.
21. If a group of people crowd a place, there are so many of them there that it is full. Thousands of demonstrators crowded the streets shouting slogans. = pack.
22. If people crowd you, they stand very closely around you trying to see:
or speak to you, so that you feel uncomfortable. It had been a tense, restless day with people crowding her all the time.
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