Crowd
[kraʊd]
Definition
(noun.) a large number of things or people considered together; 'a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers'.
(noun.) an informal body of friends; 'he still hangs out with the same crowd'.
(verb.) to gather together in large numbers; 'men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah'.
(verb.) fill or occupy to the point of overflowing; 'The students crowded the auditorium'.
Typed by Dewey--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To push, to press, to shove.
(v. t.) To press or drive together; to mass together.
(v. t.) To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity.
(v. t.) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
(v. i.) To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.
(v. i.) To urge or press forward; to force one's self; as, a man crowds into a room.
(v. t.) A number of things collected or closely pressed together; also, a number of things adjacent to each other.
(v. t.) A number of persons congregated or collected into a close body without order; a throng.
(v. t.) The lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar; the rabble; the mob.
(n.) An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow.
(v. t.) To play on a crowd; to fiddle.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Throng, multitude, concourse, host.[2]. Babble, mob, populace, vulgar mass, lower classes, lower orders, common people.
v. a. [1]. Fill by compression, fill to excess.[2]. Compress, cram, press, press together.[3]. Urge, dun.
v. n. [1]. Swarm, flock together, be numerous, come thick.[2]. Press forward, make one's way.
Inputed by Amanda
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Throng, mob, swarm, pack, herd
ANT:Cream, elite, bevy, galaxy, constellation, cabinet
Typist: Wesley
Definition
n. (obs.) an ancient musical instrument of the nature of the violin.—n. Crowd′er (obs.) a fiddler.
n. a number of persons or things closely pressed together without order: the rabble: multitude.—v.t. to gather into a lump or crowd: to fill by pressing or driving together: to compress.—v.i. to press on: to press together in numbers: to swarm.—p.adj. Crowd′ed.—Crowd sail to carry a press of sail for speed.
Typist: Molly
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a large, handsomely dressed crowd of people at some entertainment, denotes pleasant association with friends; but anything occurring to mar the pleasure of the guests, denotes distress and loss of friendship, and unhappiness will be found where profit and congenial intercourse was expected. It also denotes dissatisfaction in government and family dissensions. To see a crowd in a church, denotes that a death will be likely to affect you, or some slight unpleasantness may develop. To see a crowd in the street, indicates unusual briskness in trade and a general air of prosperity will surround you. To try to be heard in a crowd, foretells that you will push your interests ahead of all others. To see a crowd is usually good, if too many are not wearing black or dull costumes. To dream of seeing a hypnotist trying to hypnotize others, and then turn his attention on you, and fail to do so, indicates that a trouble is hanging above you which friends will not succeed in warding off. Yourself alone can avert the impending danger.
Checker: Vernon
Examples
- I shall be there, but only as one of the crowd. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I should have walked on to the church if the conversation of two men and a woman on the outskirts of the crowd had not caught my ear. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He looked vacantly upon the crowd, and fell heavily to the ground. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Her lodgings were hard by; and they threaded through the crowd without, where everything seemed to be more astir than even in the ball-room within. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- There is a great crowd bearing down upon us, Miss Manette, and I see them--by the Lightning. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- We found the ship in the river, surrounded by a crowd of boats; a favourable wind blowing; the signal for sailing at her mast-head. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I decided that if I found a corresponding crowd there, the only thing to do to correct my lack of judgment in not getting more papers was to raise the price from five cents to ten. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- At the various towns there were corresponding crowds. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Miles long, and of breadth losing itself in vagueness, for all the neighbouring country crowds to see. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A very crestfallen coachload of royalty returned to Paris and was received by vast crowds--_in silence_. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I started immediately making several larger and better machines, which I exhibited at Menlo Park to crowds. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Crowds of spectators assembled to see the boat start on its first experimental voyage. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- He found that Wilbur Wright actually preferred to fly without an audience, and thought nothing of disappointing the crowds that gathered to watch him. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Crowds at the performance with the legs. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Altogether, ours was a lively and a picturesque procession, and drew crowded audiences to the balconies wherever we went. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It was crowded now with the family and the wedding guests. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- We must look some time among its crowded decks before we shall find again our humble friend Tom. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- So I and the vice-president of the company, Mr. Mallory, crowded through the manhole to see why the ore would not come down. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The others crowded around him, and even two who had hold of Gurth relaxed their grasp while they stretched their necks to see the issue of the search. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had found ourselves in the morning. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- We were eating at the inn from where the buses leave and the room was crowded and people were singing and there was difficulty serving. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- There were tortures and executions, as well as a great crowding of the gaols with Christian presbyters and bishops. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- No crowding, said Mr. Rochester: take the drawings from my hand as I finish with them; but don't push your faces up to mine. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Archer was dealing hurriedly with crowding thoughts. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- There was room there for a dozen persons, with a little crowding, and it was as close and hot as an oven. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The whole place seemed restless and troubled; and the people were crowding and flitting to and fro, like the shadows in an uneasy dream. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- A forest valley, with rocky sides and brown profundity of shade, formed by tree crowding on tree, descends deep before me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The little dark boats had moved nearer, people were crowding curiously along the hedge by the high-road, to see what was to be seen. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Editor: Randolph