crowd
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Động từ
verb- 1.
(intransitive)To press forward; to advance by pushing.
The man crowded into the packed room.
Đồng nghĩa: barge
- 2.
(intransitive)To press together or collect in numbers.
They crowded through the archway and into the park.
Đồng nghĩa: swarm, throng, crowd in, crush, pile, horde
- 3.
(transitive)To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen.
- 4.
(transitive)To fill by pressing or thronging together
- 5.
(often, transitive)(transitive, often used with "out of" or "off") To push, to press, to shove.
They tried to crowd her off the sidewalk.
- 6.
(nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
- 7.
(transitive)(nautical, of a square-rigged ship, transitive) To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
- 8.
(transitive)To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
- 9.
(intransitive, obsolete)To play on a crowd; to fiddle.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
After the movie let out, a crowd of people pushed through the exit doors.
- 2.
Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
There was a crowd of toys pushed beneath the couch where the children were playing.
- 3.
(with definite article)The so-called lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar.
- 4.
A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
That obscure author's fans were a nerdy crowd which hardly ever interacted before the Internet age.
We're concerned that our daughter has fallen in with a bad crowd.
- 5.
(alt of, alternative, obsolete)Alternative form of crwth.
- 6.
(dialectal)(now dialectal) A fiddle.
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From Middle English crouden, from Old English crūdan, from *krūdan, from Proto-Germanic *krūdaną, *kreudaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *grewt- (to push; press). Cognate with kroden, kruien.