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crowder

/ˈkɹaʊdə(ɹ)//ˈkɹaʊdɚ/

crowder noun: one who crowds or pushes.

Noun (1)

crowder (plural crowders)

  1. One who crowds or pushes.

Noun (2)

crowder (plural crowders)

  1. One who plays on a crwth (Welsh string instrument); a fiddler.
    • Certainly, I must confess my own barbarousness, I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung but by some blind crowder […]a. 1587 (date written), Phillip Sidney [i.e., Philip Sidney], An Apologie for Poetrie. […], London: […] [James Roberts] for Henry Olney, […], published 1595, →OCLC; republished as Edward Arber...
    • This comparison is all the more relevant as Uthr Ben represents himself in the Taliessin poem as bard, harper, piper, crowder —in a word, seven-score professionals all in one, an idea to be faintly traced in the Mabinogi of Branwen, when it makes Brân, on his expedition to Ireland, wade across with...1888, John Rhŷs, Celtic Heathendom, Lecture V

Proper noun capitalized: Crowder

Crowder (countable and uncountable, plural Crowders)

  1. A surname originating as an occupation.
  2. A town in Panola County and Quitman County, Mississippi, United States.
  3. An unincorporated community in Scott County, Missouri, United States.
  4. A town in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, United States.

Forms of crowder

Noun
pluralcrowders
alternative formcrowther
Proper noun
pluralCrowders
alternative formCrowther

Plural of crowder: crowders

Origin of crowder

From crowd + -er.

From Middle English crowdere; equivalent to crowd + -er.

From crowder, an occupational surname for someone who played the crwth.

Words formed from crowder

Phrases with crowder

Questions about crowder

What does crowder mean?
Crowder means one who crowds or pushes.
What part of speech is crowder?
Crowder can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce crowder?
Crowder is pronounced /ˈkɹaʊdə(ɹ)/.
What is the plural of crowder?
The plural of crowder is crowders.

Words near crowder in the dictionary

  1. crowdedly
  2. crowdedness
  3. Crowdell
  4. Crowdells
  5. Crowden
  6. crowder
  7. crowder pea
  8. crowder peas
  9. crowders
  10. crowdest
  11. crowdeth

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