CROWD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crowd mean? 

• CROWD (noun)
  The noun CROWD has 2 senses:

1. a large number of things or people considered together

2. an informal body of friends

  Familiarity information: CROWD used as a noun is rare.

• CROWD (verb)
  The verb CROWD has 4 senses:

1. cause to herd, drive, or crowd together

2. fill or occupy to the point of overflowing

3. to gather together in large numbers

4. approach a certain age or speed

  Familiarity information: CROWD used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CROWD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large number of things or people considered together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Context example:

a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers

Hypernyms ("crowd" is a kind of...):

assemblage; gathering (a group of persons together in one place)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crowd"):

army (a large number of people united for some specific purpose)

crush; jam; press (a dense crowd of people)

drove; horde; swarm (a moving crowd)

huddle (a disorganized and densely packed crowd)

mob; rabble; rout (a disorderly crowd of people)

phalanx (any closely ranked crowd of people)

flock; troop (an orderly crowd)

Derivation:

crowd (to gather together in large numbers)

crowd (cause to herd, drive, or crowd together)

crowd (fill or occupy to the point of overflowing)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An informal body of friends

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

bunch; crew; crowd; gang

Context example:

he still hangs out with the same crowd

Hypernyms ("crowd" is a kind of...):

assemblage; gathering (a group of persons together in one place)

• CROWD (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they crowd    ... he / she / it crowds   
Past simple: crowded   
Past participle: crowded   
-ing form: crowding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to herd, drive, or crowd together

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

crowd; herd

Context example:

We herded the children into a spare classroom

Hypernyms (to "crowd" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "crowd"):

overcrowd (cause to crowd together too much)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

crowd (a large number of things or people considered together)

crowding (a situation in which people or things are crowded together)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Fill or occupy to the point of overflowing

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Context example:

The students crowded the auditorium

Hypernyms (to "crowd" is one way to...):

fill; occupy (occupy the whole of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

The crowds crowd in the streets

Derivation:

crowd (a large number of things or people considered together)

crowding (a situation in which people or things are crowded together)

Sense 3

Meaning:

To gather together in large numbers

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

crowd; crowd together

Context example:

men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah

Hypernyms (to "crowd" is one way to...):

assemble; foregather; forgather; gather; meet (collect in one place)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "crowd"):

mass (join together into a mass or collect or form a mass)

overcrowd (crowd together too much)

pour; pullulate; stream; swarm; teem (move in large numbers)

herd (move together, like a herd)

jam; mob; pack; pile; throng (press tightly together or cram)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

crowd (a large number of things or people considered together)

crowding (a situation in which people or things are crowded together)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Approach a certain age or speed

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

crowd; push

Context example:

She is pushing fifty

Hypernyms (to "crowd" is one way to...):

approach; come near; come on; draw close; draw near; go up; near (move towards)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

It was the old crowd in which he found himself—the old crowd, with here and there a gap, and here and there a new face.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The garret windows and tops of houses were so crowded with spectators, that I thought in all my travels I had not seen a more populous place.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Many planets have crowded into your eighth house of other people’s money, so you seem fairly obsessed with money management.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It’s a bit like a stadium or “Mexican” wave of sports fans standing up after the people next to them to create a wave-like motion through the crowd.

(Plants can tell time even without a brain, University of Cambridge)

Have you ever tried to find a friend in a large crowd?

(How the brain pays attention to faces and places, NIH)

But among the myriad microscopic grains collected by Cassini, a special few — just 36 grains — stand out from the crowd.

(Saturn Spacecraft Samples Interstellar Dust, NASA)

So he jumped in; splash! went the water; it sounded as if he were calling them, and the whole crowd plunged in after him as one man.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Toto had run into the crowd to bark at a kitten, and Dorothy at last found him.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

A panic in a crowd, which partakes of a sort of community of interest, is not so terrible as a panic when one is by oneself; and such a panic I now suffered.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Holmes dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but, just as he reached her, he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood running freely down his face.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)