Definition of "crowd"
- verb
To push, to press, to shove.
To press or drive together; to mass together.
To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity.
To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.
To urge or press forward; to force one's self; as, a man crowds into a room.
(of a square-rigged ship) (transitive) To carry excessive sail.
To play on a crowd; to fiddle.
- noun
A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
A crwth, an Ancient Celtic plucked string instrument.
A fiddle.
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