crowd

IPA: krˈaʊd

A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
(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.
(now dialectal) A fiddle.
(obsolete) Alternative form of crwth [(historical) 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. Played variously by plucking or bowing.]

(intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.
(intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers
(transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
(transitive) To fill by pressing or thronging together
(transitive, often used with "out of" or "off") To push, to press, to shove.
(nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
(nautical, of a square-rigged ship, transitive) To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
(transitive) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
(obsolete, intransitive) To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

Examples of "crowd" in Sentences

They excoriated the crowd.
They declamed to the crowd.
But the rest of the crowd is worse.
It was crowding the top of the page.
It was the spark that ignited the crowd.
The band motivates the crowd straight away.
The crowd gave the group a standing ovation.
The crowd around the destruction breaks into mass hysteria.
Police moved in on the crowd, firing pepper balls and mace into the crowd.
In the smaller clubs, the band would shake hands with the crowd at the end.
The term "crowd pleaser" is a real backhanded compliment in comedy, being associated with stale, hackneyed, button-pushing routines.
"Because it's Monday and it's a school day, the crowd is a lot smaller, (but) it appears a lot of people aren't going to work or school," said Los Angeles County lifeguard Capt.
With so many people documenting what's really happening, for example, the power of the crowd is actually very important and I think that in the end hopefully there is always going to be more of us than "them."
This crowd is armed with clubs and swords (Mark and Matthew) or lanterns, torches and weapons (John 18: 3, brilliantly deploying the fear-laden backdrop of darkness, into which John so memorably has Judas vanishing earlier the same evening).