crowd
noun
- group of people that are gathered or considered together
verb
- fill to capacity, crowding past capacity, full
- get too close to, violate personal space
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹaʊ̯d/ / [ˈkʰɹʷaʊ̯d] / /ˈkɹæʊ̯d/
noun
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English crowde, from Welsh crwth or a Celtic cognate.
- Alternative form of crwth.
“A lackey that […] can warble upon a crowd a little.”
- A fiddle.
“That keep their Consciences in Cases, / As Fiddlers do their Crowds and Bases,[…]”
“[…]wandering palmers, hedge-priests, Saxon minstrels, and Welsh bards, were muttering prayers, and extracting mistuned dirges from their harps, crowds, and rotes.”
verb
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English crowde, from Welsh crwth or a Celtic cognate.
- To play on a crowd; to fiddle.
“Fiddlers, crowd on, crowd on.”