| crowd | |
| 1. v. (intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing. | |
| The man crowded into the packed room. | |
| 2. v. (intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers | |
| They crowded through the archway and into the park. | |
| 3. v. To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram. | |
| He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen. | |
| 4. v. To fill by pressing or thronging together | |
| 5. v. (transitive, often used with "out of" or "off") To push, to press, to shove. | |
| They tried to crowd her off the sidewalk. | |
| 6. v. (nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way. | |
| 7. v. (nautical, of a square-rigged ship, transitive) To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster. | |
| 8. v. To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably. | |
| 9. n. A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order. | |
| After the movie let out, a crowd of people pushed through the exit doors. | |
| 10. n. Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other. | |
| There was a crowd of toys pushed beneath the couch where the children were playing. | |
| 11. n. (with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar. | |
| 12. n. A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest. | |
| That obscure author's fans were a nerdy crowd which hardly ever interacted before the Internet age. | |
| 13. n. (obsolete) alternative form of crwth | |
| 14. n. (now dialectal) A fiddle. | |
| 15. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To play on a crowd; to fiddle. | |
