crowd

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɹaʊ̯d/|[ˈkʰɹʷaʊ̯d]    美 /ˈkɹaʊ̯d/|[ˈkʰɹʷaʊ̯d]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
    — After the movie let out, a crowd of people pushed through the exit doors.
  2. Alternative form of crwth. alt-of,alternative,obsolete
    — A lackey that […] can warble upon a crowd a little.
  3. Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
    — There was a crowd of toys pushed beneath the couch where the children were playing.
  4. A fiddle. dialectal
    — That keep their Consciences in Cases, / As Fiddlers do their Crowds and Bases,[…]
  5. The so-called lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar. with-definite-article
    — He went not, with the Crowd, to ſee a Shrine;
  6. A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
    — That obscure author's fans were a nerdy crowd which hardly ever interacted before the Internet age.
动词 v.
  1. To press forward; to advance by pushing. intransitive
    — The man crowded into the packed room.
  2. To play on a crowd; to fiddle. intransitive,obsolete
    — Fiddlers, crowd on, crowd on.
  3. To press together or collect in numbers. intransitive
    — They crowded through the archway and into the park.
  4. To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram. transitive
    — He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen.
  5. To fill by pressing or thronging together transitive
    — The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign.
  6. To push, to press, to shove. often,transitive
    — They tried to crowd her off the sidewalk.
  7. To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
  8. To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster. transitive
    — With all her might she crowds all sail off shore; in so doing, fights ’gainst the very winds that fain would blow her homeward; seeks all the lashed sea’s landlessness again; for refuge’s sake forlornly rushing into peril; her only friend her bitterest foe!
  9. To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably. transitive

词形变化

crowds present,singular,third-person crowding participle,present crowded participle,past crowded past crowds plural crowds plural crowds present,singular,third-person crowding participle,present crowded participle,past crowded past

词汇关系

近义词
becrowd assemblage congregation crowd flock huddle legion press slew audience group multitude public swarm throng horde mass
上位词
group lot
下位词
audience spectators mob rabble scrum swarm host
衍生词
crowder crowdingly crowd in on crowd out crowd together crowd up outcrowd overcrowd undercrowd alone in a crowd anticrowd beat the crowd capacity crowd crowd art crowd catch crowd control crowd disease crowdest crowdfactoring crowdfund crowdfunding crowd-kill crowdlending crowdless crowdlike crowd manipulation crowd pleaser crowd-pleaser crowdpleaser crowd-pleasing crowd-poisoning crowd psychology crowd puller crowd-puller crowd sail crowdsale crowdsensing crowd-source crowdsource crowdsourcing crowd surf crowd surfer crowd surfing crowd vetting crowd wave crowdwork crowdworker crowdy flash crowd flashcrowd follow the crowd in crowd in-crowd play to the crowd rent-a-crowd three's a crowd tough crowd wisdom of the crowd work the crowd wrong crowd
相关词
masses populace public assemble

词源

词源 1
From Middle English crouden, from Old English crūdan, from Proto-West Germanic *krūdan, from Proto-Germanic *krūdaną, *kreudaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *grewt- (“to push; press”). Cognate with German Low German kroden (“to push, shove”), Dutch kruien (“to push, shove”).
(group of people, mob): Compare typologically throng (<<~ Proto-Germanic *þrinhwaną); Czech dav (akin to Russian дави́ть (davítʹ), да́вка (dávka)); Polish ciżba, ścisk (<~ ciskać, akin to ти́скать (tískatʹ)); Polish tłok, Russian толчея́ (tolčejá) (akin to толка́ть (tolkátʹ)).
词源 2
Inherited from Middle English crowde, from Welsh crwth or a Celtic cognate.
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