crowd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹaʊd/
rhymes: -aʊd
Forms: form: crowds
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”).
Senses: examples: text: After the movie let out, a crowd of people pushed through the exit doors.
text: Athelstan Arundel walked home[…], foaming and raging. […] He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
ref: 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 16:
text: He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance.[…]But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again[…]she found her mother standing up before the seat on which she had sat all the evening searching anxiously for her with her eyes, and her father by her side.
ref: 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC, page 9:
glosses: A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
examples: text: There was a crowd of toys pushed beneath the couch where the children were playing.
glosses: Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
examples: text: He went not, with the Crowd, to ſee a Shrine;
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “The Character of a Good Parson; Imitated from Chaucer, and Inlarg’d”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 536:
text: […]To fool the crowd with glorious lies,[…]
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto CXXVI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 197:
glosses: The so-called lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar.
examples: text: That obscure author's fans were a nerdy crowd which hardly ever interacted before the Internet age.
text: We're concerned that our daughter has fallen in with a bad crowd.
text: Maybe it was time I joined the crowd and bought a few of those for my own office.
ref: 2015, Cameron Bane, Pitfall:
glosses: A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
Synonyms: sense: group of things
word: aggregation
sense: group of things
word: cluster
sense: group of things
word: group
sense: group of things
word: mass
sense: group of people
word: audience
sense: group of people
word: group
sense: group of people
word: multitude
sense: group of people
word: public
sense: group of people
word: swarm
sense: group of people
word: throng
sense: group of people
word: horde
sense: the "lower orders" of people
word: everyone
sense: the "lower orders" of people
word: general public
sense: the "lower orders" of people
word: hoi polloi
sense: the "lower orders" of people
word: masses
sense: the "lower orders" of people
word: rabble
sense: the "lower orders" of people
word: mob
sense: the "lower orders" of people
word: tag-rag
sense: the "lower orders" of people
word: unwashed
word: assemblage
word: congregation
word: crowd
word: flock
word: huddle
word: legion
word: press
word: slew
Hypernyms: word: group
word: lot
Hyponyms: word: audience
word: spectators
word: mob
word: rabble
word: scrum
word: swarm
word: host
Derived terms: alone in a crowd
anticrowd
beat the crowd
capacity crowd
crowd art
crowd catch
crowd control
crowd disease
crowdest
crowdfactoring
crowdfund
crowdfunding
crowd-kill
crowdlending
crowdless
crowdlike
crowd manipulation
crowd pleaser
crowd-pleaser
crowdpleaser
crowd-pleasing
crowd-poisoning
crowd psychology
crowd puller
crowd-puller
crowd sail
crowdsale
crowdsensing
crowd-source
crowdsource
crowdsourcing
crowd surf
crowd surfer
crowd surfing
crowd vetting
crowd wave
crowdwork
crowdworker
crowdy
flash crowd
flashcrowd
follow the crowd
in crowd
in-crowd
play to the crowd
rent-a-crowd
three's a crowd
tough crowd
wisdom of the crowd
work the crowd
wrong crowd
Related terms: word: masses
word: populace
word: public
word: assemble