crowd
/ˈkɹaʊ̯d/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.70 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
verb
To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "The man crowded into the packed room."
- "They crowded through the archway and into the park."
- "[T]he whole company closed their ranks, and crowded about the fire."
- "Images came crowding on his mind faster than he could put them into words."
- "He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen."
- "[…]The Time (miſ-order’d) doth in common ſence / Crowd vs, and cruſh vs, to this monſtrous Forme, / To hold our ſafetie vp."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *grewt-der. Proto-Germanic *krūdaną Proto-West Germanic *krūdan Old English crūdan Middle English crouden English crowd 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)).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: crouden, crūdan, *krūdan, *krūdaną, *grewt-, crowde
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkɹaʊ̯d/
- British English: /ˈkɹaʊ̯d/