crowd

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a large number of things or people considered together

   a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers

2. 2
   noun

   an informal body of friends

   They still hang out with the same crowd.

3. 3
   verb

   to gather together in large numbers

   men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah

4. 4
   verb

   to fill or occupy to the point of overflowing

   The students crowded the auditorium.

5. 5
   verb

   To press forward; to advance by pushing.

   The man crowded into the packed room.

6. 6
   verb

   To press together or collect in numbers.

   They crowded through the archway and into the park.

7. 7
   verb

   To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.

   He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen.

8. 8
   verb

   To fill by pressing or thronging together

   The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign.

Etymology

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)).