From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
From [en], from [en], from [en], from [en], [gem-pro], ultimately from [en].
Cognate with [nds-de], [nl].
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To press forward ; to advance by push ing.
2. [en] To press together or collect in numbers.
3. * [I]
4. * {{ RQ:Macaulay Bunyan
|passage=Images came CROWDING on his mind faster than he could put them into
words.}}
1. [en] To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram .
2. * [IV]
3. [en] To fill by pressing or thronging together
4. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1875 | author=w:William Hickling Prescott | title=History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain
|passage=The balconies and verandas were CROWDED with spectators, anxious to
behold their future sovereign.}}
1. [en] To push , to press , to shove .
2. * [en]
3. [en] To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way .
4. [en] To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
5. * [The Lee Shore]
6. [en] To press by solicitation ; to urge ; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably .
***** Synonyms
- [en] [dated]
***** Derived terms
[en]
***** Translations
[to press together in numbers]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Khmer: [km]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Occitan: [oc] , [oc] , [oc]
- Persian: [fa]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Sicilian: [scn] , [scn]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tamil: [ta]
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**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
2. * [chapter=Prologue]
3. * [A Court Ball]
4. Several things collected or close ly pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
5. [en] The so-called lower orders of people; the populace ; the vulgar .
6. * [The Character of a Good Parson]
7. * [CXXVI]
8. A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest .
9. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2015 | author=Cameron Bane | title=Pitfall
|passage=Maybe it was time I joined the CROWD and bought a few of those for my
own office.}}
***** Synonyms
- [group of things] [en] , [en] , [en] , [en]
- [group of people] [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en]
- [the "lower orders" of people] [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en]
***** Derived terms
[en]
***** Translations
[group of people]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca] , [ca]
- Cherokee: [chr]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da] , [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo]
- Estonian: [et] , [et] , [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] [colloquial] , [de] , [de]
- Gothic: [got]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Ingrian: [izh] , [izh] , [izh]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it] , [it] , [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk] , [kk] , [kk] , [kk]
- Khmer: [km] , [km] , [km] , [km] , [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Ladino: [lad] , [lad]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latin: [la] , [la] , [la] , [la] , [la] , [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maltese: [mt] , [mt] , [mt] , [mt] , [mt] , [mt]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Marathi: [mr] , [mr] , [mr]
- Mongolian:
- Nepali: [ne] , [ne]
- Norman: [nrf] , [nrf]
- Norwegian:
- Old English: [ang]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Quechua: [qu]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sicilian: [scn] , [scn] , [scn]
- Sinhalese: [si]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Telugu: [te] , [te]
- Thai: [th]
- Tibetan: [bo]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur] , [ur]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Welsh: [cy]
- West Frisian: [fy]
- ǃXóõ: [nmn]
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[group of things]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Latin: [la]
- Norwegian:
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sicilian: [scn] , [scn] , [scn]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Thai: [th]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
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[the “lower orders” of people]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] , [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sicilian: [scn] , [scn]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Welsh: [cy]
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[checktrans-top]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Old English: [ang] , [ang]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Telugu: [te]
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*** Etymology 2
Inherited from [en], from [en] or a [en] cognate.
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] [en] .
2. * [passage=A lackey that [...] can warble upon a CROWD a little.]
3. [en] A fiddle .
4. * [year=1905]
5. * [III]
***** Derived terms
- [en]
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To play on a crowd; to fiddle .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1656 | author=w:Thomas Middleton; w:William Rowley; w:Philip Massinger | title=w:The Old Law
|passage=Fiddlers, CROWD on, CROWD on.}}
*** References
[R:Webster 1913]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]