Meaning of Crowder | Babel Free
ˈkɹaʊdə(ɹ)Definitions
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A surname originating as an occupation. countable, uncountable
- One who crowds or pushes.
- One who plays on a crwth (Welsh string instrument); a fiddler.
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A town in Panola County and Quitman County, Mississippi, United States. countable, uncountable
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An unincorporated community in Scott County, Missouri, United States. countable, uncountable
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A town in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, United States. countable, uncountable
Equivalents
العربية
المجمهر
Examples
“Certainly, I must confess my own barbarousness, I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder […]”
“This comparison is all the more relevant as Uthr Ben represents himself in the Taliessin poem as bard, harper, piper, crowder —in a word, seven-score professionals all in one, an idea to be faintly traced in the Mabinogi of Branwen, when it makes Brân, on his expedition to Ireland, wade across with the musicians of his court on his shoulders”
“When Johann of Hembach was scarcely more than a child, his witch mother took him to the nocturnal assembly of demons and, because he was so clever a crowder, ordered him to play his kit and to climb up a tree from which he could be heard better.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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