crowds

Noun (1)

crowd (plural crowds)

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.

   Synonyms:

   aggregation, cluster, group, mass

3. (with-definite-article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar.
   • He went not, with the Crowd, to ſee a Shrine;1700, [John] Dryden, “The Character of a Good Parson; Imitated from Chaucer, and Inlarg’d”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 536

   Synonyms:

   everyone, general public, hoi polloi, masses, rabble, mob, tag-rag, unwashed

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.

Noun (2)

crowd (plural crowds)

1. (dialectal) A fiddle.
   • That keep their Consciences in Cases, / As Fiddlers do their Crowds and Bases,[…]1663 (indicated as 1664), [Samuel Butler], “The Second Part of Hudibras. Canto II.”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678...

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