crowd

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A large number of persons gathered together; a throng.
2. n. The common people; the populace.
3. n. A group of people united by a common characteristic, as age, interest, or vocation: the over-30 crowd.
4. n. A group of people attending a public function; an audience: The play drew a small but appreciative crowd.
5. n. A large number of things positioned or considered together.
6. v. To congregate in a restricted area; throng: The children crowded around the TV.
7. v. To advance by pressing or shoving: A bevy of reporters crowded toward the candidate.
8. v. To force by or as if by pressing or shoving: Police crowded the spectators back to the viewing stand. Urban sprawl crowded the farmers out of the valley.
9. v. To draw or stand near to: The batter crowded the plate.
10. v. To press, cram, or force tightly together: crowded the clothes into the closet.
11. v. To fill or occupy to overflowing: Books crowded the shelves.
12. v. Informal To put pressure on, as to pay a debt.
13. idiom. crowd (on) sail Nautical To spread a large amount of sail to increase speed.
14. n. An ancient Celtic stringed instrument that was bowed or plucked. Also called crwth.
15. n. Chiefly British A fiddle.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To push; force forward; shove; impel.
2. To push or wheel in a wheelbarrow.
3. To press close, or closely together; push or drive in; squeeze; cram: as, to crowd too much freight into a ship; to crowd many people into a small room.
4. To fill to excess; occupy or pack with an unusual or inordinate number or quantity: as, the audience crowded the theater; to crowd a ship's hold.
5. To throng about; press upon; press as by a multitude: as, we were most uncomfortably crowded.
6. To encumber or annoy by multitudes or excess of numbers.
7. To urge; press by solicitation; importune; annoy by urging: as, to crowd a debtor for immediate payment.
8. To press in numbers; come together closely; swarm: as, the multitude crowded through the gate or into the room.
9. To press forward; increase speed; advance pushingly, as against obstacles: as, to crowd into a full room, or into company.
10. n. A collection; a multitude; a large number of things collected or grouped together; a number of things lying near one another.
11. n. A large number of persons congregated together, or gathered into a close body without order; a throng.
12. n. Any group or company of persons: as, a jolly crowd.
13. n. People in general; the populace; the mass; the mob.
14. n. Same as crode.
15. n. Synonyms and Throng, etc. (see multitude), host, swarm, concourse, shoal.
16. n. An ancient Welsh and Irish musical instrument, the earliest known specimen of the viol class—that is, of stringed instruments played with a bow. It had a shallow rectangular body with two circular sound-holes, through one of which passed one foot of the bridge. The strings were perhaps only three at first, but in later times were six, of which two were played lutewise, by pinching or twitching. The tuning of the strings is disputed, but the compass of the instrument was probably from two to three octaves upward from about tenor G.
17. To play on a crowd or fiddle.

Wiktionary

1. v. transitive To push, to press, to shove.
2. v. transitive To press or drive together; to mass together.
3. v. transitive To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity.
4. v. transitive To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
5. v. nautical To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way
6. v. intransitive To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng
7. v. intransitive To urge or press forward; to force one's self; as, a man crowds into a room
8. v. nautical (of a square-rigged ship) (transitive) To carry excessive sail
9. n. A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
10. n. Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
11. n. with definite article The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
12. n. A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
13. n. obsolete A crwth, an Ancient Celtic plucked string instrument.
14. n. now dialectal A fiddle.
15. v. obsolete, intransitive To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To push, to press, to shove.
2. v. To press or drive together; to mass together.
3. v. To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity.
4. v. colloq. To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
5. v. To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.
6. v. To urge or press forward; to force one's self.
7. n. A number of things collected or closely pressed together; also, a number of things adjacent to each other.
8. n. A number of persons congregated or collected into a close body without order; a throng.
9. n. The lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar; the rabble; the mob.
10. n. An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow.
11. v. obsolete To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. an informal body of friends
2. v. fill or occupy to the point of overflowing
3. v. approach a certain age or speed
4. v. cause to herd, drive, or crowd together
5. n. a large number of things or people considered together
6. v. to gather together in large numbers