Crowd
To push, to press, to shove.
To press or drive together; to mass together.
To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity.
To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.
To urge or press forward; to force one's self; as, a man crowds into a room.
A number of things collected or closely pressed together; also, a number of things adjacent to each other.
A number of persons congregated or collected into a close body without order; a throng.
The lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar; the rabble; the mob.
An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow.
To play on a crowd; to fiddle.
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Crowd Quotations
Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.
Margaret Thatcher
A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
Alexander Pope
The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.
Will Rogers
A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business, live concerts.
Elvis Presley
Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
Henri Frederic Amiel
There's a lot of whiners in every crowd.
R. Lee Ermey
The mass, whether it be a crowd or an army, is vile.
Benito Mussolini
The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.
Douglas MacArthur
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
Bertrand Russell
A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself.
Loretta Young
Crowd Translations
crowd in Afrikaans is skare, menigte, massa, stapel
crowd in Dutch is menigte, hoop, massa, boel, drom
crowd in Finnish is kasa
crowd in German is Menge {f}, Auflauf {m}
crowd in Latin is celebritas, turba, populus, caterva
crowd in Norwegian is mengde
crowd in Spanish is apretura, multitud, apresurar, muchedumbre
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