crowd

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A large number of people gathered together in one place.

   A huge crowd gathered to watch the parade.

2. 2
   verb

   To gather together in large numbers in a place.

   Fans crowded around the entrance, hoping to see the singer.

3. 3
   noun

   A particular group of friends or people with shared interests.

   She still hangs out with the same crowd from school.

Multiword verbs with crowd

• crowd out Phrasal verb A2

  to force something or someone out by occupying the available space

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Simplified etymology

Crowd comes from Old English crūdan, “to press” or “to hasten.” In Middle English the verb developed the senses “move by pushing” and “push one’s way,” then “congregate”; the noun for a gathered mass of people followed in the mid-16th century.

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”). (group of people, mob): Compare typologically throng (<<~ Proto-Germanic *þrinhwaną); Czech dav (akin to Russian дави́ть (davítʹ), да́вка (dávka)); Polish ciżba, ścisk (<~ ciskać, akin to ти́скать (tískatʹ)); Polish tłok, Russian толчея́ (tolčejá) (akin to толка́ть (tolkátʹ)).

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