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Phonetics
/kɹaʊd/
noun
A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
Example: After the movie let out, a crowd of people pushed through the exit doors.Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
Example: There was a crowd of toys pushed beneath the couch where the children were playing.(with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
Example: That obscure author's fans were a nerdy crowd which hardly ever interacted before the Internet age.verb
To press forward; to advance by pushing.
Example: The man crowded into the packed room.To press together or collect in numbers
Example: They crowded through the archway and into the park.To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
Example: He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen.To fill by pressing or thronging together
(often used with "out of" or "off") To push, to press, to shove.
Example: They tried to crowd her off the sidewalk.To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
(of a square-rigged ship) To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
Phonetics
/kɹaʊd/
noun
(now dialectal) A fiddle.
verb
To play on a crowd; to fiddle.
noun
An archaic stringed instrument associated particularly with Wales, though once played widely in Europe, and characterized by a vaulted back and enough space for the player to stop each of the six strings on the fingerboard.