crowd

Plural: crowds

Noun

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"
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; the vulgar.
A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
Alternative form of crwth.
A fiddle.

Verb

Verb Forms: crowded, crowding, crowds

To fill a space densely; to press together or throng.
cause to herd, drive, or crowd together
fill or occupy to the point of overflowing
- "The students crowded the auditorium"
to gather together in large numbers
- "men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah"
approach a certain age or speed
To press forward; to advance by pushing.
To press together or collect in numbers.
To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
To fill by pressing or thronging together
To push, to press, to shove.
To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

Examples

After the movie let out, a crowd of people pushed through the exit doors.
He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen.
That obscure author's fans were a nerdy crowd which hardly ever interacted before the Internet age.
The letters on his rack seemed to CROWD together, making it hard to see any potential words.
The man crowded into the packed room.
There was a crowd of toys pushed beneath the couch where the children were playing.
They crowded through the archway and into the park.
They tried to crowd her off the sidewalk.
We're concerned that our daughter has fallen in with a bad crowd.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English crouden, from Old English crūdan, from Proto-West Germanic *krūdan, from Proto-Germanic *krūdaną, *kreudaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *grewt- (“to push; press”). Cognate with German Low German kroden (“to push, shove”), Dutch kruien (“to push, shove”).

Synonyms

bunch, crew, crowd together, gang, herd, push, aggregation, assemblage, audience, becrowd, cluster, congregation, crowd, crowd in, crush, everyone, flock, general public, group, hoi polloi, horde, huddle, legion, mass, masses, mob, multitude, press, public, rabble, slew, swarm, tag-rag, throng, unwashed

Scrabble Score: 11

crowd: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
crowd: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
crowd: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 12

crowd: valid Words With Friends Word