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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
crowd
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a capacity crowd (=the largest number of people that can fit in a place)
▪ A capacity crowd of 40,000 turned up at the stadium.
a football crowd
▪ We got caught up in a noisy football crowd.
appreciative audience/crowd
crowd control
▪ Police used fire hoses and dogs for crowd control.
crowd gathered
▪ A crowd gathered to watch the fight.
crowd pleaser
crowd puller
▪ The exhibition has been a big crowd puller.
crowded (=with a lot of people)
▪ The streets get very crowded at weekends.
crowded
▪ In the summer the beaches get very crowded.
enthusiastic crowd/audience
▪ It’s nice to see such an enthusiastic crowd at the match.
home team/game/crowd/club etc
▪ The home team took the lead after 25 minutes.
overcrowded/crowded conditions
▪ Families here are living in dirty, overcrowded conditions.
sellout crowd
▪ a sellout crowd of 32,000
stood out in a crowd
▪ She always stood out in a crowd.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
▪ In the postwar euphoria big crowds flocked regularly to the Oval to see the attacking cricket on which Surridge insisted.
▪ Moore has never brought in big crowds on her own.
▪ They bring out the big crowds which stimulate the competition.
▪ Our guys respond well to big crowds.
▪ Pavements are wide and there's room for a big, happy crowd.
▪ Fifty was a big crowd for a University of Connecticut game.
▪ There's another high bore tommorrow - when big weekend crowds are expected to line the banks to watch the surfing spectacular.
▪ This was their biggest crowd of the summer.
huge
▪ It attracts huge crowds to exhibitions and fetches high prices at auctions in New York, London and Paris.
▪ Stephenson drew huge, rabid crowds on his barnstorming tours of the Indiana countryside.
▪ The huge crowd spontaneously broke into applause.
▪ Stores all over Paris were mobbed Friday, with huge crowds massing outside stores even before opening time.
▪ Today, huge crowds gathered to watch John and girlfriend Jill Morrell launch their new book in Oxford.
▪ There was a huge crowd there.
▪ Royal Ascot would otherwise not be able to go ahead next Tuesday unless huge crowd restrictions were introduced.
▪ Then a day after being called up he picks up his first-ever win in front of a huge crowd.
large
▪ Very large crowds attended on the Friday, although not as vast as on the first day.
▪ Because of the large crowd expected, the city moved it from the A.L.
▪ Clubs did not compete with one another to attract larger crowds by reducing their prices.
▪ His patronage to confessors is attributed to the large crowds he attracted to the confessionals.
▪ Is it having people looking at you or having to speak to a large crowd when you have never done that before?
▪ His voice was vigorous and his tone was sharp as he spoke to large crowds at two campaign rallies.
▪ Otherwise, the plush arena and a large crowd might prove too much to handle.
sellout
▪ The sellout Forum crowd stood and applauded while play commenced.
▪ The sellout crowd of 19,925 certainly enjoyed watching Iverson score 47 points on 17-for-33 shooting in 44 minutes.
small
▪ Two lorries crammed with riot policemen arrived and fired tear-gas canisters, rapidly dispersing the small crowd, which included news photographers.
▪ A small crowd of living stood watching the growing crowd of dead.
▪ A small crowd gathered in the street and was watching through the shattered window.
▪ They came upon a small crowd gathered around a long wooden table that had posters of Sophia Loren hanging along the front.
▪ There was already a small crowd around the screaming child.
▪ To his chagrin, only a small crowd turned out to watch him.
▪ A small crowd had gathered, craning their necks towards David, and muttering.
▪ There was a small crowd of people around.
■ NOUN
capacity
▪ They didn't get the 60,000 capacity crowd.
▪ Her body was worn out from performing to a capacity crowd at Town Hall.
▪ There was a highly enthusiastic capacity crowd.
▪ The match will be all-ticket with an anticipated 25,000 capacity crowd and distribution arrangements will be announced shortly.
▪ A capacity crowd of 40,000 turned up.
▪ But there were no complaints from the capacity crowd at Darlington Civic Theatre on opening night.
▪ We haven't got the capacity crowd we expected.
control
▪ Nearly 400 road marshals will be involved in crowd control.
▪ He saw the storm-troopers practising karate, crowd control, baton practice and their skills with the knife and knuckleduster.
▪ The cop who'd collected her had been a crowd control unit, the full cyborg.
▪ Second, it gets a head start on the crowd control that the rest of the service will require.
▪ Lancashire introduced extra crowd control measures for the Test and the one-day international.
home
▪ The home crowd use other crossing points.
▪ He played before home crowds of 5, 000 for three coaches on teams that never won more than they lost.
▪ The home crowd definitely helped us.
▪ The first try came after five minutes and prompted a cheerful roar from the home crowd.
▪ A novelty for the home crowd at reserve matches in 1924-25 was music from gramophone records broadcast through a loudspeaker.
■ VERB
address
▪ Sukarno began to tour Java, addressing massive crowds on the theme of the awakening of national consciousness.
▪ Leaders of the opposition coalition Zajedno, or Together, address the crowd.
▪ Finbar O'Doherty was cheered loudly when he mounted the stairway to address the crowd.
▪ DiMaggio did not address the crowd, but when he lifted his arms to receive their cheers, no words were necessary.
▪ A mixture of sorrow and jubilation punctuated the voices of those who addressed the crowds.
▪ In addition to addressing the crowds as he journeyed through Galilee and around Jerusalem, he drew aside to be with his closest associates.
▪ He addressed a crowd of his civilian supporters at Baabda on Oct. 12, when he only narrowly escaped an assassination attempt.
attract
▪ Models were attracting crowds unseen for years.
▪ He must have suspected that a Madness gig would attract a football crowd.
▪ To attract crowds large enough to fill up the ornate space, big spectacles were de rigueur.
▪ Clubs did not compete with one another to attract larger crowds by reducing their prices.
▪ Cole attracted crowds to Fillmore clubs.
▪ It attracts huge crowds to exhibitions and fetches high prices at auctions in New York, London and Paris.
▪ If the band don't attract a sell-out crowd, the promoter's risk has been minimized.
bring
▪ They bring out the big crowds which stimulate the competition.
▪ She brought the crowd to its feet after both her floor exercise and her vault, drawing team-high scores in both.
▪ Tell him to bring a crowd of law officers and a local judge to the inn.
▪ Somehow, in a quiet, under-stated way, Frank could always bring a crowd.
▪ And then in the final minute came the try that brought the crowd to their feet.
▪ Moore has never brought in big crowds on her own.
▪ Ripley brought the crowd to their feet with his stunning winner.
▪ Umphrey brought roars from the crowd with an exciting high bar routine.
cheer
▪ A till was hurled out into the cheering crowd, followed by burgers, potato chips and furniture.
▪ President Kennedy was welcomed in the summer of 1962 by a cheering crowd estimated at more than 1 million.
▪ Along the route they were greeted by cheering crowds and doused with rose water.
▪ It would certainly cheer up this crowd and give everyone something to talk about for the next week.
▪ Then he urged the cheering crowd to go out and prove the naysayers wrong and bring their friends to revivals.
disperse
▪ Two lorries crammed with riot policemen arrived and fired tear-gas canisters, rapidly dispersing the small crowd, which included news photographers.
▪ Tense soldiers detonated concussion grenades in an effort to disperse the crowds.
▪ Police used tear-gas, electric batons and sticks to disperse the crowds, arresting 20.
▪ Federal troops were used to disperse a crowd that tried to storm the jail.
▪ Several demonstrators were badly injured as police fired tear gas to disperse the crowd in Revolution Square last Saturday.
▪ They dispersed a crowd of whites and seized weapons in the black section of town.
▪ Police used water cannon to disperse a crowd on Portadown's Corcrain estate.
▪ We dispersed the crowds away from the area.
draw
▪ The railway draws a strange crowd before morning.
▪ Its summer concerts, featuring such stars as Harry Belafonte and Boz Scaggs, draw crowds.
▪ Henrietta's choral society concert draws a good crowd despite a dodgy venue in the backstreets of Catford.
▪ It drew the crowds, I guess.
▪ The Legionnaires march drew a large crowd of veterans, their families and some students.
▪ Despite their current run of bad luck, the Giants are drawing record crowds at Scottsdale Stadium.
▪ The all-Ireland press team should draw quite a crowd.
▪ Roz always drew attention in a crowd.
expect
▪ Organisers expect the crowds this year easily to exceed the record attendance of 170,000 over four days in 1992.
▪ The evening gets started early at 7: 30 p. m. and sells out early, with an expected crowd of 320.
▪ Sunderland also expect a big crowd for Friday night's £5,000 marathon challenge match.
▪ In its first season this summer, it has played to slightly larger-than-#expected crowds.
▪ The Scarlets are expecting a capacity 14,500 crowd to bring in around £70,000.
▪ But like others, she expects an overwhelming crowd.
▪ Middlesbrough have sold their full 4,000 allocation and Wolves expect a 20,000 crowd.
▪ An expected crowd of 250 will join Latin Jazz band Manteca and guests in a champagne toast at midnight.
gather
▪ It was the one pub where students could be guaranteed not to gather in jabbering crowds: the reason was the clientele.
▪ Chutra seemed ambivalent about the perpetually gathering crowds.
▪ Their conversation was gathering a small crowd.
mingle
▪ She mingled with the crowds of young, untidy foreigners who lounged around the base of the statue in Piccadilly Circus.
▪ And a short chubby woman with thick pebble-glass spectacles, Mary Dunn, mingled with the crowd.
▪ For a few minutes longer, she mingled with the crowd, exchanging a word here and there.
stand
▪ Yanto was one of those men who stood out in a crowd.
▪ A small crowd of living stood watching the growing crowd of dead.
▪ Nisodemus stood slightly ahead of the crowd, holding his hands in the air.
▪ Irvin stood before the crowd at Texas Stadium that day and blistered the fans who ripped Switzer.
▪ They stood amid the station crowds, arguing.
▪ Primo and the man stand facing the crowd.
▪ She had stood out in the crowd even amongst the beautiful beach children of San Francisco.
▪ And I was standing over with the crowd of my brothers and sisters.
tell
▪ Ten minutes later Castro reappeared and told the crowd he would finish his speech on television that same evening.
▪ One of the security guys started telling the crowd a lot of otter stories.
watch
▪ Southworth had his head turned, watching the crowds.
▪ A small crowd of living stood watching the growing crowd of dead.
▪ Then, as she watched, the crowd parted and a man came towards her.
▪ The fight was between five men who were being watched by a screaming crowd of about 60 onlookers.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
close/packed/crowded etc together
▪ The Beastline were standing close together, silhouetted against the sky.
▪ The main street in Lincoln is narrow, and the little houses are close together.
▪ These horses show relaxed, peaceful outlines, with friends standing particularly close together.
▪ They stood close together in silence, listening.
▪ Though they are close together on the couch, there is in fact a chasm between them.
▪ We draw close together to complete our plans.
follow the herd/crowd
▪ All they get is sad sheep for fans ... who just follow the crowd - try and be uncontroversial.
▪ But Viroli is not one simply to follow the herd.
▪ I follow the crowd back to a coffee shop.
▪ The only advice from Miss Doris was to follow the crowd.
two's company, three's a crowd
two's company, three's a crowd
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a crowd of angry protesters
▪ A crowd of reporters were waiting for her at the airport.
▪ a football crowd
▪ A huge crowd gathered to hear Mandela speak.
▪ An enormous crowd gathered to watch the parade.
▪ He wasn't with his usual crowd last night.
▪ I don't go to football games because I don't like big crowds.
▪ I guess the usual crowd will be at the party.
▪ I walked down Regent Street, with its crowds of tourists and Christmas shoppers.
▪ It may be necessary to change your child's school if they get in with a bad crowd.
▪ The exhibition is expected to attract large crowds of visitors.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But in the winter, cluster flies aggregate in thick black crowds jammed into cracks and crannies inside the house.
▪ He braced as he was swallowed up by the adoring crowd and swept toward the door by the moving mass.
▪ I turned back towards the crowd.
▪ I watched as he found Doriot and hand in hand they moved more deeply into the crowd.
▪ Immobile among the moving crowd, he stood there and watched.
▪ In this frigid season, crowds lined up to buy sugar, milk, chocolate and potatoes.
▪ It is surprising that no crowd reaction to the miracle is given.
▪ Teenagers with sporty slogans on the back of their jackets sat attentively amid the rest of the crowd.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
people
▪ I was anxious to get out as it was stifling in there with no ventilation and all these people crowded in.
▪ On the allotted day, some forty people crowded into an upstairs office at Vernon Yard.
▪ Another 2, 000 people crowded the lobby.
▪ When he stood for Parliament numbers of poor people crowded round the hustings demanding the payment of outstanding bills.
▪ The fights in Seattle were broken up with pepper spray when as many as 4,000 people crowded into the streets.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
close/packed/crowded etc together
▪ The Beastline were standing close together, silhouetted against the sky.
▪ The main street in Lincoln is narrow, and the little houses are close together.
▪ These horses show relaxed, peaceful outlines, with friends standing particularly close together.
▪ They stood close together in silence, listening.
▪ Though they are close together on the couch, there is in fact a chasm between them.
▪ We draw close together to complete our plans.
two's company, three's a crowd
two's company, three's a crowd
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A jumble of confused thoughts crowded my brain.
▪ A large group of people crowded around the screaming child.
▪ Angry protesters crowded the courthouse steps.
▪ Fans crowded around the rear entrance of the concert hall, hoping to catch a glimpse of the band.
▪ Shoppers crowded the town market.
▪ Stop crowding me! I need time to make this decision.
▪ Stop crowding me! There's plenty of room.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An increase in the number of locally-issued debt could push yields higher by crowding out demand for government bonds.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crowd

Crowd \Crowd\, n. [W. crwth; akin to Gael. cruit. Perh. named from its shape, and akin to Gr. kyrto`s curved, and E. curve. Cf. Rote.] An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow. [Written also croud, crowth, cruth, and crwth.]

A lackey that . . . can warble upon a crowd a little.
--B. Jonson.

Crowd

Crowd \Crowd\, v. i.

  1. To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.

    The whole company crowded about the fire.
    --Addison.

    Images came crowding on his mind faster than he could put them into words.
    --Macaulay.

  2. To urge or press forward; to force one's self; as, a man crowds into a room.

Crowd

Crowd \Crowd\, n. [AS. croda. See Crowd, v. t. ]

  1. A number of things collected or closely pressed together; also, a number of things adjacent to each other.

    A crowd of islands.
    --Pope.

  2. A number of persons congregated or collected into a close body without order; a throng.

    The crowd of Vanity Fair.
    --Macaulay.

    Crowds that stream from yawning doors.
    --Tennyson.

  3. The lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar; the rabble; the mob.

    To fool the crowd with glorious lies.
    --Tennyson.

    He went not with the crowd to see a shrine.
    --Dryden.

    Syn: Throng; multitude. See Throng.

Crowd

Crowd \Crowd\ (kroud), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crowded; p. pr. & vb. n. Crowding.] [OE. crouden, cruden, AS. cr[=u]dan; cf. D. kruijen to push in a wheelbarrow.]

  1. To push, to press, to shove.
    --Chaucer.

  2. To press or drive together; to mass together. ``Crowd us and crush us.''
    --Shak.

  3. To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity.

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

  4. To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably. [Colloq.]

    To crowd out, to press out; specifically, to prevent the publication of; as, the press of other matter crowded out the article.

    To crowd sail (Naut.), to carry an extraordinary amount of sail, with a view to accelerate the speed of a vessel; to carry a press of sail.

Crowd

Crowd \Crowd\, v. t. To play on a crowd; to fiddle. [Obs.] ``Fiddlers, crowd on.''
--Massinger.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
crowd

Old English crudan "to press, crush." Cognate with Middle Dutch cruden "to press, push," Middle High German kroten "to press, oppress," Norwegian kryda "to crowd." Related: Crowded; crowding.

crowd

1560s, from crowd (v.). The earlier word was press (n.).

Wiktionary
crowd

Etymology 1 n. 1 A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order. 2 Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other. 3 (lb en with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar. 4 A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To press forward; to advance by pushing. 2 (context intransitive English) To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng. 3 (context transitive English) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram. 4 (context transitive English) To fill by pressing or thronging together. 5 (context transitive often used with "out of" or "off" English) To push, to press, to shove. 6 (context nautical English) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way. 7 (lb en nautical of a square-rigged ship transitive) To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster. 8 (context transitive English) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably. Etymology 2

n. 1 (context obsolete English) A crwth, an Ancient Celtic plucked string instrument. 2 (qualifier: now dialectal) A fiddle. vb. (context obsolete intransitive English) To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

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WordNet
crowd

  1. n. a large number of things or people considered together; "a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers"

  2. an informal body of friends; "he still hangs out with the same crowd" [syn: crew, gang, bunch]

crowd

  1. v. cause to herd, drive, or crowd together; "We herded the children into a spare classroom" [syn: herd]

  2. fill or occupy to the point of overflowing; "The students crowded the auditorium"

  3. to gather together in large numbers; "men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah" [syn: crowd together]

  4. approach a certain age or speed; "She is pushing fifty" [syn: push]

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Wikipedia
Crowd

A crowd is a large group of people that are gathered or considered together. The term "the crowd" may sometimes refer to the lower orders of people in general ( the mob). A crowd may be definable through a common purpose or set of emotions, such as at a political rally, a sports event, or during looting (this is known as a psychological crowd), or may simply be made up of many people going about their business in a busy area.

Crowd (disambiguation)

A crowd is a large and definable group of people.

Crowd or The Crowd may also refer to:

In music:

  • The Crowd (band), a 1985 British supergroup
  • Crowd Lu (born 1985), Taiwanese indie singer and songwriter
  • The Crowd (album), debut 2008 album by Nathan King
  • "The Crowd", a song by The Cat Empire from the album The Cat Empire
  • "The Crowd", a song by Roy Orbison
  • Crwth, a Celtic musical instrument also called a crowd

Other uses:

  • The Crowd (1928 film), American silent film directed by King Vidor
  • The Crowd (1951 film), Italian film
  • "The Crowd", a short story by Ray Bradbury included in his collection The October Country
  • The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, 1895 book by Gustave Le Bon
  • Crowds, a proposed anonymity network for the internet
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Usage examples of "crowd".

The artillery attempted to unlimber and to bring their guns to bear again, but the confusion that prevailed in the crowded spot rendered this next to impossible, and long before it could be accomplished the iron hail again swept through the ranks, and two rattling volleys from their invisible foes behind the flanking abattis again flashed out.

Upon the signal being given, they leaped in crowds from the advanced trench, climbed over the abattis, descended the ditch and swarmed up the rugged slope in hundreds.

Solomon and his son Sir Abraham sit among the dignitaries on the apron directly above the first set of steps of Parliament House some eight feet above the crowd.

Susanna Adams flew into a rage over the fact that Deacon John, in answer to his own conscience and feelings of responsibility as selectman, had brought a destitute young woman to live in the crowded household, the town having no means to provide for her.

With the crowd in raptures, cannon pounding, church bells clanging, Washington bowed still again and then, Adams at his side, moved back to deliver his inaugural address to a seated Congress.

The Adams household was more crowded now than it had ever been and would remain so.

As a crowd gathered outside the Adams house, numbers of the family filled the room where the two old heroes sat reminiscing, Adams hugely enjoying the occasion.

With a firm grip on his shoulder, the emperor of Shan was guiding him through the milling crowd, into the public room where Carina and Adar had set up their aid station.

With Adelaide carrying Prickles behind him, he pushed his way through the shouting crowds towards the hospital entrance.

Daniel said, nodding Adele ahead just in case some of the soldiers tried to push in and crowd her.

Then, with a swift, smooth motion, he slid the automatic pistol out from under his belt, and half a dozen of the platform workers shrieked as Adler brought the weapon up and aimed it directly into the crowd.

By then a crowd of townsfolk had started to form in front of the south gates and spill over, just as Admi had predicted, onto the commons to either side the path.

Public opinion--in spite of, or on account of, a crowd of witnesses--was ill informed upon the exact bearings of the question, and it was obvious that as Dutch sentiment at the Cape appeared already to be thoroughly hostile to us, it would be dangerous to alienate the British Africanders also by making a martyr of their favourite leader.

Soon, having reproduced to the point of crowding, some Africans would swarm and settle in the wilds.

He appeared to be drawing out his argument into a filibuster, to hold the platform until the aftersupper crowd came along.