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Meaning of 'crowd'
Meaning of 'crowd' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Crowd 
[ n.]
- An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of
violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow. [ n.]2. Crowd [ 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.
3. Crowd [ v. t.]
- To push, to press, to shove. [ v. t.]- 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.
- A number of things collected or closely pressed together; also, a number of things adjacent to each other.
- A number of persons congregated or collected into a close body without order; a throng.
- The lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar; the rabble; the mob.
- To play on a crowd; to fiddle.
Meaning of 'crowd' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. crowd [ n]
[ n]Meaning (1):
- a large number of things or people considered together
- a large number of things or people considered together
Example in sentence:
- a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers
Meaning (2):
- an informal body of friends
- an informal body of friends
Example in sentence:
- he still hangs out with the same crowd
2. crowd [ v]
[ v]Meaning (3):
- to gather together in large numbers
- to gather together in large numbers
Example in sentence:
- men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah
Meaning (4):
- approach a certain age or speed
- approach a certain age or speed
Example in sentence:
- She is pushing fifty
Meaning (5):
- fill or occupy to the point of overflowing
- fill or occupy to the point of overflowing
Example in sentence:
- The students crowded the auditorium
Meaning (6):
- cause to herd, drive, or crowd together
- cause to herd, drive, or crowd together
Example in sentence:
- We herded the children into a spare classroom
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