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Crowds

/kɹaʊdz/

A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.

📖 Definitions of "Crowds"

noun
  1. 1

    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."

  2. 2

    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."

  3. 3

    (with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.

  4. 4

    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."

verb
  1. 1

    To press forward; to advance by pushing.

    "The man crowded into the packed room."

  2. 2

    To press together or collect in numbers

    "They crowded through the archway and into the park."

  3. 3

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

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

  4. 4

    To fill by pressing or thronging together

noun
  1. 1

    (now dialectal) A fiddle.

verb
  1. 1

    To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

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