crowd

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As the crowd was at a fever pitch, McCain waiting for the crowd to settle and then answersed that he will take the fight directly to Obama, BUT, he will do so in a respectful manner AND that he respects Obama and all that he has accomplished.

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  1. noun A large number of persons gathered together; a throng.
  2. noun The common people; the populace.
  3. noun A group of people united by a common characteristic, as age, interest, or vocation: the over-30 crowd.
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  • In its demand for fresh horrors this crowd is as insatiate as the ancient Romans used to be when Nero was giving one of those benefits at the Colosseum for the fire sufferers of his home city. —  Cobb's Bill-of-Fare
  • In the crowd were the boys and girls, and also Mrs. Wadsworth, Mr. Dunston Porter, and about forty others from Crumville and vicinity. —  Dave Porter in the Gold Fields The Search for the Landslide Mine
  • This crowd was a little larger than usual. —  Lalage's Lovers
  • "He and his crowd are all in jail. —  The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast
  • So Jesus went with him, and a great crowd followed and pressed about him In the crowd was a woman who had suffered from hemorrhage for twelve years and had been treated by many physicians, spending all that she had, yet was none the better, but rather had grown worse. —  The Children's Bible
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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

group ·  audience ·  mob ·  throng ·  multitude ·  band ·  voice ·  army ·  crow ·  mass ·  figure ·  body

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crowd:   crowds ·  Crowd ·  crowding ·  crowded
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Etymologies (5)

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  1. From Middle English crowden, to crowd, press, from Old English crūdan, to hasten, press.
  2. Middle English croud, from Middle Welsh crwth.

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  1. from Middle English crowden, crouden, cruden, push, shove, drive, press forward, from Anglo-Saxon *crūdan, push, press, drive (usually cited as *creódan, which, however, could not produce the English form; neither infinitive occurs, but only 3d person singular indicative cry¯deth and preterit creád, occurring once each; the preterit plural would be *crudon, the past participle croden, later croda, n., and gecrod, n., in the poetical compounds lindcroda, the shock of shields (battle), lindgecrod, the shielded throng (warriors), hlōthgecrod, the heaped throng (clouds), etc.), = Middle Dutch kruyden, contr. kruyen, Dutch kruijen, drive, push in a wheelbarrow (cf. def. I., 2). Other connections not found.
  2. Also spelled croud and crowth (and sometimes, as W., crwth), from Middle English crowde, croude, also crouthe, crouth, from Welsh crwth, a crowd, violin, fiddle, = Gaelic cruit, a violin, harp, cymbal, = Old Irish crot, later Middle Latin chrotta, a crowd: prob. so called from its rounded or protuberant form, being ult. identical with W. crwth, a hump, bulge, belly, trunk, croth, womb, calf of the leg.
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