crowd
♦♦ crowd /kr'aʊd/ (crowds crowding crowded)
1 [N-COUNT-COLL] oft N of n
A crowd is a large group of people who have gathered together, for example to watch or listen to something interesting, or to protest about something.
A huge crowd gathered in a square outside the Kremlin walls...
The crowd were enormously enthusiastic...
The explosions took place in shopping centres as crowds of people were shopping for Mothers' Day.
= throng
2 [N-COUNT] usu supp N
A particular crowd is a group of friends, or a set of people who share the same interests or job. (INFORMAL)
All the old crowd have come out for this occasion.
3 [VERB] V round/around n, V round/around
When people crowd around someone or something, they gather closely together around them.
The hungry refugees crowded around the tractors...
Police blocked off the road as hotel staff and guests crowded around.
= cluster
4 [VERB] V into n, be V-ed into n, V-ed
If people crowd into a place or are crowded into a place, large numbers of them enter it so that it becomes very full.
Hundreds of thousands of people have crowded into the center of the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius...
One group of journalists were crowded into a minibus...
`Bravo, bravo,' chanted party workers crowded in the main hall.
= pack, cram
5 [VERB] V n
If a group of people crowd a place, there are so many of them there that it is full.
Thousands of demonstrators crowded the streets shouting slogans.
= pack
6 [VERB] V n
If people crowd you, they stand very closely around you trying to see or speak to you, so that you feel uncomfortable.
It had been a tense, restless day with people crowding her all the time.crowd in
[PHRASAL VERB] V P on n, V P
If problems or thoughts crowd in on you, a lot of them happen to you or affect you at the same time, so that they occupy all your attention and make you feel unable to escape.
Everything is crowding in on me...
She tried to sleep, but thoughts crowded in and images flashed into her mind.crowd out
[PHRASAL VERB] V P n (not pron), also V n P
If one thing crowds out another, it is so successful or common that the other thing does not have the opportunity to be successful or exist.
In the 1980s American exports crowded out European films.
= squeeze out
1 [N-COUNT-COLL] oft N of n
A crowd is a large group of people who have gathered together, for example to watch or listen to something interesting, or to protest about something.
A huge crowd gathered in a square outside the Kremlin walls...
The crowd were enormously enthusiastic...
The explosions took place in shopping centres as crowds of people were shopping for Mothers' Day.
= throng
2 [N-COUNT] usu supp N
A particular crowd is a group of friends, or a set of people who share the same interests or job. (INFORMAL)
All the old crowd have come out for this occasion.
3 [VERB] V round/around n, V round/around
When people crowd around someone or something, they gather closely together around them.
The hungry refugees crowded around the tractors...
Police blocked off the road as hotel staff and guests crowded around.
= cluster
4 [VERB] V into n, be V-ed into n, V-ed
If people crowd into a place or are crowded into a place, large numbers of them enter it so that it becomes very full.
Hundreds of thousands of people have crowded into the center of the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius...
One group of journalists were crowded into a minibus...
`Bravo, bravo,' chanted party workers crowded in the main hall.
= pack, cram
5 [VERB] V n
If a group of people crowd a place, there are so many of them there that it is full.
Thousands of demonstrators crowded the streets shouting slogans.
= pack
6 [VERB] V n
If people crowd you, they stand very closely around you trying to see or speak to you, so that you feel uncomfortable.
It had been a tense, restless day with people crowding her all the time.crowd in
[PHRASAL VERB] V P on n, V P
If problems or thoughts crowd in on you, a lot of them happen to you or affect you at the same time, so that they occupy all your attention and make you feel unable to escape.
Everything is crowding in on me...
She tried to sleep, but thoughts crowded in and images flashed into her mind.crowd out
[PHRASAL VERB] V P n (not pron), also V n P
If one thing crowds out another, it is so successful or common that the other thing does not have the opportunity to be successful or exist.
In the 1980s American exports crowded out European films.
= squeeze out