crowd
cause to herd, drive, or crowd together
How often you will meet it
Rank 843 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 21,695 times across 175,113 chapters — 0.010% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
verb
- cause to herd, drive, or crowd together also: herd We herded the children into a spare classroom
- fill or occupy to the point of overflowing The students crowded the auditorium
- to gather together in large numbers also: crowd together men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah
- approach a certain age or speed also: push She is pushing fifty
noun
- a large number of things or people considered together a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers
- an informal body of friends also: crew, gang, bunch he still hangs out with the same crowd
crowd in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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The crew captain whirled and leaped, unseeing, through the crowd.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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What means this crowd of men And women here in peaceful Bethlehem?
The White Christmas and other Merry · Walter Ben Hare · Chapter 1
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The whip-bearers were forced to use all their authority to keep this gaping crowd in order.
An Egyptian Princess — Volume 07 · Georg Ebers · Chapter 1
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No more, aghast and pale, From Ostia's walls the crowd shall mark 335 The track of thy destroying bark.
Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) · O. J. [Annotator] Stevenson · Chapter 1
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His clothes were torn off piecemeal and scattered in the crowd, people catching the shreds and putting them away as mementos.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1