Meaning of crowd | Babel Free

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1. A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
2. To press forward; to advance by pushing
3. To spread a large amount of sail to increase speed.
4. Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
5. A fiddle.
   dialectal
6. To press together or collect in numbers
7. an ancient Celtic musical instrument with the strings stretched over a rectangular frame, played with a bow.
8. The so-called lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar.
   with-definite-article
9. To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram
10. having or containing a lot of people or things. crowded buses. propvol مُزْدَحِـم претъпкан apinhado přecpaný überfüllt overfyldt; stuvende fuld υπερπλήρης abarrotado, atestado, concurrido tungil täis پر جمعیت؛ شلوغ ahdas bondé הוֹמֶה אָדַם भीड़ वाला prepun zsúfolt penuh yfirfullur affollato 込みあった 붐비는 sausakimšas, tankiai gyvenamas, prigrūstas pārpildīts; pieblīvēts penuh berasak volstappfull, proppet, overlessetzatłoczony بیروبار apinhado aglo­me­rat переполненный preplnený, nabitý nabit pre...
11. A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
12. To fill by pressing or thronging together
13. A large number of persons gathered together; a throng.
14. To push, to press, to shove
15. The common people; the populace.
16. A group of people united by a common characteristic, as age, interest, or vocation: the over-30 crowd.
17. A group of people attending a public function; an audience: The play drew a small but appreciative crowd.
18. A large number of things positioned or considered together.
19. To gather together in a limited space: The children crowded around the TV.
20. To move forward by pressing or shoving: A bevy of reporters crowded toward the candidate.

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Examples

“After the movie let out, a crowd of people pushed through the exit doors.”

“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.”

“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.”

“There was a crowd of toys pushed beneath the couch where the children were playing.”

“He went not, with the Crowd, to ſee a Shrine;”

“[…]To fool the crowd with glorious lies,[…]”

“That obscure author's fans were a nerdy crowd which hardly ever interacted before the Internet age.”

“We're concerned that our daughter has fallen in with a bad crowd.”

“Maybe it was time I joined the crowd and bought a few of those for my own office.”

“A lackey that […] can warble upon a crowd a little.”

“That keep their Consciences in Cases, / As Fiddlers do their Crowds and Bases,[…]”

“[…]wandering palmers, hedge-priests, Saxon minstrels, and Welsh bards, were muttering prayers, and extracting mistuned dirges from their harps, crowds, and rotes.”

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