crowd
To press forward; to advance by pushing.
Verb 4 meanings
To press forward; to advance by pushing.
“The man crowded into the packed room.”
To press together or collect in numbers.
“They crowded through the archway and into the park.”
To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
“He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen.”
To fill by pressing or thronging together
Noun 4 meanings
A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
“After the movie let out, a crowd of people pushed through the exit doors.”
Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
“There was a crowd of toys pushed beneath the couch where the children were playing.”
The so-called lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar.
A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
“That obscure author's fans were a nerdy crowd which hardly ever interacted before the Internet age.”
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”).
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CROWD at a glance
CROWD has 5 letters and scores 11 points in Scrabble (C 3 + R 1 + O 1 + W 4 + D 2) and 12 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,983 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with crowd
All rhymes- DOWD9
- OVERCROWD18
- GOWD9
- SHROWD13
- BECROWD15
- OUTCROWD14
- SHOWD12
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