crowd
/ˈkɹaʊ̯d/ noun A2- 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.
- 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.
- The so-called lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar.
- 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.
Plural crowds
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His eyes fairly glittered as he spoke, and he put his hand over his heart and bowed as if to some applauding crowd conjured up by his imagination.
Then, commencing a loud whistling noise, he rubbed them well all over their bodies for several minutes; then, undisturbed by the noisy crowd collected round the broken carriage, Ali quietly harnessed the pacified animals to the count’s chariot, took the reins in his hands, and mounted the box, when to the utter astonishment of those who had witnessed the ungovernable spirit and maddened speed of the same horses, he was actually compelled to apply his whip in no very gentle manner before he could induce them to start; and even then all that could be obtained from the celebrated “dappled grays,” now changed into a couple of dull, sluggish, stupid brutes, was a slow, pottering pace, kept up with so much difficulty that Madame de Villefort was more than two hours returning to her residence in the Faubourg Saint-Honoré.
The vague disquietude which prevailed among the spectators had so much affected one of the crowd that he did not await the arrival of the vessel in harbor, but jumping into a small skiff, desired to be pulled alongside the Pharaon, which he reached as she rounded into La Réserve basin.
“Well, they were a mighty hard-looking crowd.
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