crowdverb詞源 1/ˈkɹaʊ̯d/

• 1

  To press forward; to advance by pushing.

  • The man crowded into the packed room.
• 2

  To press together or collect in numbers.

  • They crowded through the archway and into the park.
  • [T]he whole company closed their ranks, and crowded about the fire.
• 3

  To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.

  • 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.
• 4

  To fill by pressing or thronging together

  • The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign.
• 5

  To push, to press, to shove.

  • They tried to crowd her off the sidewalk.
  • Alexis's mementos and numerous dance trophies were starting to crowd her out of her little bedroom.
• 6

  nauticaltransportTo approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.

• 7

  nauticaltransportTo carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.

  • 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!
• 8

  To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.

crowdnoun詞源 1/ˈkɹaʊ̯d/

• 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.
  • Athelstan Arundel walked home[…], foaming and raging. […] He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
• 2

  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.
• 3

  The so-called lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar.

  • He went not, with the Crowd, to ſee a Shrine;
  • […]To fool the crowd with glorious lies,[…]
• 4

  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.
  • We're concerned that our daughter has fallen in with a bad crowd.

crowdnoun詞源 2/ˈkɹaʊ̯d/

• 1

  dialectalA 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.

crowdverb詞源 2/ˈkɹaʊ̯d/

• 1

  obsoleteTo play on a crowd; to fiddle.

  • Fiddlers, crowd on, crowd on.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• crwth