Verb

1. To push, to press, to shove.
2. To press or drive together; to mass together.
3. To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity.
4. To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
5. To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way
6. To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng
7. To urge or press forward; to force one's self; as, a man crowds into a room
8. (of a square-rigged ship) To carry excessive sail

Noun

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. (with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.

   To fool the crowd with glorious lies. --Tennyson.

   He went not with the crowd to see a shrine. -- Dryden.

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.

Synonyms

Noun

1. A crwth, an Ancient Celtic plucked string instrument.
2. A fiddle.
   • 1819: wandering palmers, hedge-priests, Saxon minstrels, and Welsh bards, were muttering prayers, and extracting mistuned dirges from their harps, crowds, and rotes. — Walter Scott, Ivanhoe