Definition of Crowd

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Definition of Crowd

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

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

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

There's a lot of whiners in every crowd.
R. Lee Ermey

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
Epicurus

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
Epicurus

Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.
Margaret Thatcher

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

We survived a Slayer crowd every night for about 50 days and thought we could do about anything after that.
Layne Staley

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

Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.
Larry Bird

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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