Crowd

  • 31crowd — 1 noun 1 (C) a large group of people in a public place: A vast crowd had assembled in the main square. 2 (C) a large number of a particular kind of people or things (+ of): a crowd of supporters | Kemp stepped out to face a crowd of cameras. |… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 32Crowd — The Crowd war der Name, unter dem mehr als fünfzig Stars der britischen Musikszene 1985 gemeinsam das Rodgers /Hammerstein Lied „You ll Never Walk Alone“ veröffentlichten. Die Single erreichte am 15. Juni 1985 die Nummer eins Position der UK… …

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  • 33Crowd — This interesting name, with the spellings of Croad, Crowd, Crowd, Crowther, Crother and Crewther, is of early medieval English origin. It derives from the Middle English (1200 1500) crouth or croude , related to the Welsh crwth , meaning crowd ,a …

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  • 34crowd in on — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms crowd in on : present tense I/you/we/they crowd in on he/she/it crowds in on present participle crowding in on past tense crowded in on past participle crowded in on 1) crowd in on someone if a group of people …

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  • 35crowd*/*/*/ — [kraʊd] noun I 1) [C] a large number of people in the same place The boys disappeared into the crowd.[/ex] Crowds of people began making their way to the station.[/ex] 2) [C] the audience at an event He takes off his shirt and the crowd goes wild …

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  • 36crowd — n. & v. n. 1 a large number of people gathered together, usu. without orderly arrangement. 2 a mass of spectators; an audience. 3 colloq. a particular company or set of people (met the crowd from the sales department). 4 (prec. by the) the mass… …

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  • 37crowd — 1. noun 1) a crowd of people Syn: throng, horde, mass, multitude, host, army, battalion, herd, flock, drove, swarm, sea, troupe, pack, press, crush, mob, rabble; …

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  • 38crowd — I. /kraʊd / (say krowd) noun 1. a large number of persons gathered closely together; a throng. 2. any large number of persons. 3. people in general; the masses. 4. any group or set of persons, as one s circle of acquaintances: I can t get on with …

  • 39crowd — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. gathering, concourse, horde, press, mass, gang, mob, multitude; host, herd, swarm, rout, crush, throng; informal, set, coterie, clique; populace, rabble, hoi polloi. See assemblage. II (Roget s IV) n …

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  • 40crowd — [OE] The notion underlying crowd is of ‘pushing’ or ‘pressing’ (a semantic element shared by throng and of course by the now obsolete use of press for ‘crowd’, and echoed in such current expressions as ‘there’s quite a crush in here’). The Old… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins