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Definition: Crowd |
CrowdNoun1. A large number of things or people considered together; "a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers". 2. An informal body of friends; "he still hangs out with the same crowd". Verb1. Cause to herd, drive, or crowd together; "We herded the children into a spare classroom". 2. Fill or occupy to the point of overflowing; "The students crowded the auditorium". 3. To gather together in large numbers; "men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah". 4. Approach a certain age or speed: "She is pushing fifty". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "crowd" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of a large, handsomely dressed crowd of people at some entertainment, denotes pleasant association with friends; but anything occurring to mar the pleasure of the guests, denotes distress and loss of friendship, and unhappiness will be found where profit and congenial intercourse was expected. It also denotes dissatisfaction in government and family dissensions. To see a crowd in a church, denotes that a death will be likely to affect you, or some slight unpleasantness may develop. To see a crowd in the street, indicates unusual briskness in trade and a general air of prosperity will surround you. To try to be heard in a crowd, foretells that you will push your interests ahead of all others. To see a crowd is usually good, if too many are not wearing black or dull costumes. To dream of seeing a hypnotist trying to hypnotize others, and then turn his attention on you, and fail to do so, indicates that a trouble is hanging above you which friends will not succeed in warding off. Yourself alone can avert the impending danger. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Crowd or ~~~Crouth. Crouth. A species of fiddle with six or more strings. The last noted player on this instrument was John Morgan, who died 1720. (Welsh, crwth.) "O sweet consent, between a crowd and a Jew's harp!"Lyly. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A. The process of forcing a bucket into the digging, or the mechanism that does the forcing. Used chiefly in reference to machines that dig by pushing away from themselves b. Used by some drillers as a syn. for overfeed. CF:overloa c. As used by handsetters, the uneven calking of a diamond resulting in its being pinched or forced out of its intended position in a bit d. To place or set diamonds too closely together in the crown of a bi. (references) |
Public Administration | A large number of persons fortuitously, forcibly or voluntarily gathered in a particular place without orderly arrangement. Crowd control can become an additional problem in disasters. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | CROWD. A fiddle: probably from CROOTH, the Welch name for that instrument. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: Crowd. A dozen persons may constitute a crowd if they push and jostle one another by reason of insufficient space. A thousand men will not form a crowd if all have ample room to sit or stand or move about. Source: Slips of Speech. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: CrowdSynonyms: bunch (n), crew (n), gang (n), crowd together (v), herd (v), push (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Assemblage | Verb: assemble, collect, muster; meet, unite, join, rejoin; cluster, flock, swarm, surge, stream, herd, crowd, throng, associate; congregate, conglomerate, concentrate; precipitate; center round, rendezvous, resort; come together, flock get together, pig together; forgather; huddle; reassemble. |
Crowd, throng, group; flood, rush, deluge; rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe; crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party; swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove; atajo; bunch, drive, force, mulada; remuda; roundup; array, bevy, galaxy; corps, company, troop, troupe, task force; army, regiment; (combatants); host;crowd, throng, group; flood, rush, deluge; rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe; crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party; swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove; atajo; bunch, drive, force, mulada; remuda; roundup; array, bevy, galaxy; corps, company, troop, troupe, task force; army, regiment; (combatants); host; (multitude); populousness. | |
Assent | Go with the stream, swim with the stream, go with the flow, blow with the wind; be in fashion, join in the chorus, join the crowd, be one of the guys, be part of the group, go with the crowd, don't make waves; be in every mouth. |
Commonalty | Noun: commonalty, democracy; obscurity; low condition, low life, low society, low company; bourgeoisie; mass of the people, mass of society; Brown Jones and Robinson; lower classes, humbler classes, humbler orders; vulgar herd, common herd; rank and file, hoc genus omne; the many, the general,the crowd, the people, the populace, the million, the masses, the mobility, the peasantry; king Mob; proletariat; fruges consumere nati, demos, hoi polloi, great unwashed; man in the street. |
Conformity | Be regular; Adjective: move in a groove; follow observe the rules, go by the rules, bend to the rules,obey the rules, obey the precedents; comply with, tally with, chime in with, fall in with; be guided by, be regulated by; fall into a custom,fall into a usage; follow the fashion, follow the crowd, pass muster, do as others do, hurler avec les loups; stand on ceremony; when in Rome do as the Romans do; go with the stream, go with the flow, swim with the stream, swim with the current, swim with the tide, blow with the wind; stick to the beaten track; (habit); keep one in countenance. |
Fashion | Man of fashion, woman of fashion, man of the world, woman of the world; height of fashion, pink of fashion, star of fashion, glass of fashion, leader of fashion; arbiter elegantiarum; (taste); the beautiful people, the fashion set, upper ten thousand; (nobility); elite; (distinction); smart set; the four hundred; in crowd. |
Follow the fashion, conform to the fashion, fall in with the fashion, follow the trend, follow the crowd; Noun: go with the stream; (conform); savoir vivre, savoir faire; keep up appearances, behave oneself. | |
Mixture | Adverb: among, amongst, amid, amidst; with; in the midst of, in the crowd. |
Multitude | Verb: be numerous; Adjective: swarm with, teem with, creep with; crowd, swarm, come thick upon; outnumber, multiply; people; swarm like locusts, swarm like bees. |
Noun: mul numerous; Adjective: numerosity, numerality; multiplicity; profusion; (plenty); legion, host; great number, large number, round number, enormous number; a quantity, numbers, array, sight, army, sea, galaxy; scores, peck, bushel, shoal, swarm, draught, bevy, cloud, flock, herd, drove, flight, covey, hive, brood, litter, farrow, fry, nest; crowd; (assemblage); lots; all in the world and his wife. | |
Nearness | Ring near, draw near; converge; crowd; place side by side; adVerb: |
Party | Knot, gang, clique, ring, circle, group, crowd, in-crowd; coterie, club, casino; machine; Tammany, Tammany Hall. |
Redundancy | Accumulation; (store); heap; drug, drug in the market; glut; crowd; burden. |
Sociality | Phrase: " a crowd is not company "; " be bright and jovial among your guests tonight "; " his worth is warrant for his welcome "; " let's be red with mirth "; " welcome the coming speed the parting guest ". |
Velocity | Hurry; (hasten); accelerate, put on; quicken; quicken one's pace, mend one's pace; clap spurs to one's horse; make haste, make rapid strides, make forced marches, make the best of one's way; put one's best leg foremost, stir one's stumps, wing one's way, set off at a score; carry sail, crowd sail; go off like a shot, go like a shot, go ahead, gain ground; outstrip the wind, fly on the wings of the wind. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Crowd |
| English words defined with "crowd": crowd control ♦ To crowd sail. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "crowd": 100BaseVG ♦ All the go, Ambiguity ♦ BRASS BAND ♦ Caledon, Canace, Confetti, crowd surfing, Crowdero ♦ Dance, Deputy, digging line, division commander ♦ field control inspector, flash crowd, Fry. ♦ IMPROBABILITY, INSTRUCTOR-TRAINER, CANINE SERVICE ♦ King ♦ man, Multitude ♦ Peterloo, police captain, senior, POLICE INSPECTOR I, Pro.'s ♦ Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal, Riots. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "crowd": Prease. (references) |
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Screenplays | I need a new crowd. Do you wanna come (Almost Famous; writing credit: Cameron Crowe) , my bosoms come flying out? That, that might draw a crowd, right (A League of Their Own; writing credit: Kim Wilson; Kelly Candaele) Well, sir, like everybody else, I just followed the crowd at chow time, sir. (A Few Good Men; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin) You had that crowd under your thumb (Where the Boys Aren't 7; writing credit: Ariel Hart) She fell in with that Guinness Book of Records crowd; all of a sudden she didn't have time for me. Ohhh, I wore a fifteen-pound beard of bees for that woman, but it wasn't enough (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
Lyrics | Bustin' it loud to the crowd (Get Ready For This; performing artist: 2 Unlimited) Stands in the crowd (Sk8er Boi; performing artist: Avril Lavigne) Looking at the crowd (Larger Than Life; performing artist: Backstreet Boys) You get in a crowd of high class people and then you act real rude to me (Use Me; performing artist: Bill Withers) It's a pretty good crowd for a Saturday, ("Piano Man"; performing artist: Billy Joel) | |
Clever | Small crowd (references; author: unknown) Whoever follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Crowd Inside (1971) Three's a Crowd (1969) Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) Location: Far From the Madding Crowd (1967) Philbert (Three's a Crowd) (1963) | |
Song Titles | The In Crowd (Instrumental) (performing artist: The Ramsey Lewis Trio) | |
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Pictured is a crowd scene of people walking outdoors. They are wearing light coats and jackets. Population studies tell much about how cancer is caused and how to prevent it. This photograph was in the NCI book "Decade of Discovery.". Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). | Olympic Stadium. Crowd scene. Credit: CDC. | ||
Crowd scene. Credit: CDC. | ![]() | Part of the crowd celebrating the 4th of July at St. Paul. A number of representatives of the local baseball team are dressed for a game. F&WS 10,020. Credit: America's Coastlines. | |
![]() | Far from the politics and the madding crowd, a lone fisherman enjoys a sunrise at the Tidal Basin in Washington, D. C. Credit: Fisheries. | Crowd outside Sage Country Inn meeting with Secretary Babbitt, and with SEORRAC, environmental committees, and the county court. Credit: Mark Armstrong & Chris Strebig. | |
![]() | Caption: "Edison Is in Town," Crowd Gathered on Street of Shelby, North Carolina, to Greet Cobalt Prospectors and to See Edison, Who Was One of the Prospectors; Shelby, NC; June 1, 1906; {06.050/6} (jpg). | ![]() | [A large crowd rallying against syphilis]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | Bartolomeo, The Charlatan, Addressing The Crowd. / JC [monogram] Henry Linton. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | At Port Newark, New Jersey, on 27 October 1942 or 27 October 1945, with a large crowd on board and nearby for Navy Day ceremonies. Photographed by the U.S. Steel Corporation. Credit: NAVY. |
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| "Crowd at emigration" by Gabino Travassos Commentary: "My dad again, fourth from the right with the moustache, looking at the camera. I assume this was taken at customs in Portugal, 1956 or 1957. Photographer unknown." | "Baseball Crowd" by Ryan Glanzer Commentary: "The crowd at a Minnesota Twins and Cleveland Indians game at the Metrodome." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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| Crowd noise at a gamelan festival with dancing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Epicurus | The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd. |
Francis Bacon | For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. |
Henri Frederic Amiel | Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion. |
James Shirley | Death calls ye to the crowd of common men. |
John Keats | Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous -- who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves? |
P.T. Barnum | Every crowd has a silver lining. |
William Hazlitt | Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | Here he turned to the crowd and addressed them in a loud voice |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Accordingly, the crowd was sombre and grave |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The crowd fell back with respect |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | We were down there at a meeting and after the meeting was over we had to make our way to the railway station through the crowd. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | They moved toward the dance floor and took their positions quietly on the edge of the crowd. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I knew and could distinguish those two heroes at first sight, not only from the crowd but from each other |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Others may find acceptance in a dangerous crowd. (references) | |
As the leukemic blast cells accumulate in the bone marrow, they begin to crowd out the normal blood cells that develop there. (references) | ||
Business | Association with a group, be it the business crowd to talk shop or a circle of friends, has made golf a social sport. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Philippines | On May 1, a violent crowd stormed the Presidential Palace. (references) |
Gambia | Police intervened and allegedly fired shots to control the crowd. (references) | |
Guatemala | Despite the large crowds, there was virtually no police presence or crowd control. (references) | |
Economic History | St. Vincent and the Grenadines | The Grenadines have become a favorite of the up-market yachting crowd. (references) |
Japan | Another common means of introducing, promoting and selling consumer products is to take part in large crowd events, such as regional import bazaars or American festivals at shopping centers. (references) | |
Czech Republic | In 1990, on the first anniversary of the revolution, President Bush, in front of an enthusiastic crowd on Prague's Wenceslas Square, pledged U.S. support in building a democratic Czechoslovakia. (references) | |
Human Rights | Jamaica | The police charged the crowd with batons. (references) |
Guyana | TSS officers also fired shots to disperse the crowd. (references) | |
Bolivia | A crowd of demonstrators formed around the security forces. (references) | |
Minorities | Ghana | In the process, the woman was injured slightly, and a crowd formed. (references) |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | On December 4, a crowd of Croats attacked the reconstruction site for the Stolac mosque, burning the fence surrounding the site. (references) | |
Croatia | On two previous occasions, the assembly was blocked by a crowd of right-wing ethnic Croats who opposed the election of an ethnic Serb as mayor. (references) | |
Political Economy | Haiti | The HNP has a variety of specialized units, including a crisis response unit (SWAT); a crowd control unit (CIMO) serving Port-au-Prince and the Western department; crowd control units (UDMO's) serving each of the remaining eight departments; a presidential and security unit; a small Coast Guard unit; and a Special Investigative Unit (SIU), formed to investigate high-profile political killings. (references) |
Travel | Ghana | Best Chinese cuisine in town, and they cater to the business crowd. (references) |
Worker Rights | Brazil | In May 2000, Sao Paulo military police fired tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd of striking workers from a coalition of 25 unions linked to the CUT. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DEPUTY, n. A male relative of an office-holder, or of his bondsman. The deputy is commonly a beautiful young man, with a red necktie and an intricate system of cobwebs extending from his nose to his desk. When accidentally struck by the janitor's broom, he gives off a cloud of dust. "Chief Deputy," the Master cried, "To-day the books are to be tried By experts and accountants who Have been commissioned to go through Our office here, to see if we Have stolen injudiciously. Please have the proper entries made, The proper balances displayed, Conforming to the whole amount Of cash on hand -- which they will count. I've long admired your punctual way -- Here at the break and close of day, Confronting in your chair the crowd Of business men, whose voices loud And gestures violent you quell By some mysterious, calm spell -- Some magic lurking in your look That brings the noisiest to book And spreads a holy and profound Tranquillity o'er all around. So orderly all's done that they Who came to draw remain to pay. But now the time demands, at last, That you employ your genius vast In energies more active. Rise And shake the lightnings from your eyes; Inspire your underlings, and fling Your spirit into everything!" The Master's hand here dealt a whack Upon the Deputy's bent back, When straightway to the floor there fell A shrunken globe, a rattling shell A blackened, withered, eyeless head! The man had been a twelvemonth dead. Jamrach Holobom |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Joe Esposito | I keep in touch with Priscilla more. Lisa has her own little group of people. A younger crowd, they don't hang around us old guys. |
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Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Tonight Vietnam must hold the center of our attention, but across the world problems and opportunities crowd in on the American Nation. |
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| "Crowd" is generally used as a noun (common) -- approximately 97.60% of the time. "Crowd" is used about 4,410 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (common) | 97.6% | 4,304 | 2,291 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.25% | 55 | 45,713 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.16% | 51 | 47,619 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4,410 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "crowd". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Baal-hamon | N/A | Biblical | Who rules a crowd |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "crowd": battle one's way through the crowd ♦ blend into the crowd ♦ cleave one's way through the crowd ♦ crowd control ♦ crowd in ♦ crowd into ♦ crowd on sail ♦ crowd out ♦ crowd puller ♦ crowd round ♦ crowd sail on ♦ crowd scene ♦ crowd together ♦ don't crowd so! ♦ draw a huge crowd ♦ edge one's way through a crowd ♦ elbow one's way through the crowd ♦ flash crowd ♦ go around with a bad crowd ♦ in crowd ♦ in the crowd ♦ in the forefront of the crowd ♦ in the thick of the crowd ♦ large crowd ♦ notice smb. in a crowd ♦ promiscuous crowd ♦ push through the crowd ♦ roars of the crowd ♦ shoulder one's way through a crowd ♦ the crowd ♦ thic crowd ♦ thrust through a crowd ♦ To crowd out ♦ To crowd sail ♦ twist one's way through the crowd ♦ twist smb.'s way through the crowd. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "crowd": crowd-avoiding, crowd-baiting, crowd-control, crowd-drawer, crowd-flow, crowd-free, crowd-lined, crowd-management, crowd-out, crowd-pleaser, crowd-pleasers, crowd-pleasing, crowd-puller, crowd-pullers, crowd-pulling, crowd-quelling, crowd-raiser, crowd-scene, crowd-surfing. | |
Ending with "crowd": in-crowd. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
crowd | 693 | crowd control barrier | 16 |
cooking for a crowd | 254 | crowd control equipment | 13 |
in crowd | 183 | crowd surf | 13 |
crowd recipe | 93 | crowd food | 12 |
crowd control | 87 | crowd people picture | 12 |
crowd picture | 53 | control crowd fixture metal | 11 |
crowd tough | 49 | crowd control rope | 11 |
far from madding crowd | 35 | cast crowd in | 10 |
colin crowd quinn tough | 35 | fear of crowd | 10 |
face in the crowd | 34 | crowd in susan ward | 10 |
crowd people | 33 | crowd festival | 10 |
crowd surfing | 32 | in crowd soundtrack | 10 |
concert crowd | 31 | crowd dessert | 10 |
crowd large recipe | 31 | crowd stadium | 10 |
three a crowd | 28 | crowd street | 10 |
crowd photo | 25 | sound crowd | 10 |
feeding a crowd | 20 | appetizer for a crowd | 10 |
in crowd movie | 19 | crowd potato salad | 9 |
cooking crowd recipe | 17 | crowd management | 9 |
cooking crowd large | 17 | crowd single | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "crowd"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | stapel (accumulation, heap, mass, multitude, pile, stack), skare (accumulation, are, band, bevy, cluster, collection, gang, group, heap, herd, mass, multitude, pack, pile, set), menigte (accumulation, heap, mass, multitude, pile), massa (accumulation, heap, lump, mass, multitude, pile). (various references) | |
Albanian | turmë (bevy, concourse, confluence, crew, drove, flock, herd, horde, huddle, jam, mob, press, rabble, rat race, rout, ruck, throng), shoqëri (association, companionship, company, comradeship, consortium, entourage, fellowship, gang, guild, life, society, tendance, world), popull (demos, folk, laity, nation, people, populace, population, public, race), ngjeshem (eat one's fill, press together, sit close), mbush (cement, charge, clog, close, cover in, cram, draw, fill, fill in, fill up, gorge, Grout, heap, imbue, impregnate, infest, inject, inspire, line, load, make out, meet, pad, pervade, pour out, pump, stop up, Stow, stuff, suffuse, tap, write out), mblidhem (assemble, bank, build up, collect, contract, convene, cringe, crowd together, curl, draw, duck, forgather, huddle, mass, meet, mob, pile up, reunite, roll by, roll up, shrink), mbingarkoj (overburden, overcharge, overload, supercharge), kapicë (collection, heaps of), grup (array, batch, body, bracket, camp, clutch, cohort, colony, confederate, coterie, gang, group, groupment, lot, parcel, party, phalanx, platoon, squad, tally, team, troop, unit), grumbullohem (aggregate, amalgamate, be amassed, be gathered, be mustered, build up, crowd round, crowd together, mob, overcrowd, pile up, throng, unite), grumbull njerëzish (drove, gaggle, multitude), grumbull (abatis, aggregation, amassment, bank, batch, bevy, bunch, clamp, clump, cluster, collection, congeries, group, heap, jumble, mass, mob, mountain, pile, pile up, stack, stamp mill). (various references) | |
Arabic | ضغط (bear in mind, compress, compressing, compression, depress, duress, force, hustle, jam, lay stress on smth., lean, lobby, lobbying, pinch, press, pressure, push, screw, smash, squeeze, strain, stress, telescope, tension), دفع إلى الأمام (move), شق طريقه (break, force one's way, jostle, pass, press, push, push away, weave), إحتشد (be gathered, congregate, flock, huddle, jostle, muster, swarm, teem, throng, troop), الجماهير (masses), الزحمة, دفع (actuate, anticipate, bleed, boost, carry, dig, disburse, drive, eject, encourage, flog, galvanize, give, impulse, instigate, jog, jostle, motivate, nuzzle, pay, pay down, payment, plank, press, prompt, propel, propulsion, push, remit, render up, repulsion, roll, rouse, shove, spur, sweep, thrust, thrusting, waft, wheel), جمهور (assembly, audience, gathering, great number, host, public, throng), كظ, زمرة من الناس, تدافع (jostle, repulsion), تقدم (advance, advanced, advancement, advantage, antecedence, ascent, break through, career, careerist, come on, descend, development, evolution, forge ahead, forward, gain ground, gain one's destination, get along, get forward, get on, get up, go ahead, go up, going, head, headway, improvement, keep step, lead, make up on, march, move along, move in, onward, precede, priority, proceed, procession, progress, progression, promotion, propulsion, pull ahead, rise, seniority, shape, shoot ahead, speed, stem, step, superiority, take steps, upturn, way, work up to), حشد (assemblage, assemble, boodle, cloud, college, concentrate, concourse, confluence, crew, gather, gathering, horde, host, huddle, legion, loads of, lots of, mob, mobilize, multitude, oodles, pack, pile up, press, rabble, recall, regiment, throng), مجموعة كبيرة (flock, raft), ملأ (cram, fill, fill in, fill out, stack, stuff, wind), الكرود آلة موسيقية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | тълпя се (collect, crowd together, flock, herd, horde together, mob, swarm, throng, troop, whirl), тълпа (cloud, concourse, cram, crush, drove, herd, host, huddle, mob, multitude, press, rabble, resort, rout, ruck, shoal, squash, throng, train, troop), куп (accumulation, agglomeration, amassment, bunch, bundle, clamp, cluster, congeries, crop, cumulation, cumulus, heap, hoard, huddle, knot, lashings, lump, mass, mint, mound, mountain, pack, parcel, pile, raft, ruck, scad, shoal, sight, slathers, stack, tumble), компания (bunch, circle, companionship, company, lot, party, push, set, society, tribe, troop), група (assortment, band, bandwagon, batch, body, category, clan, cluster, cohort, gang, group, knot, party, series, set, society, squad, stirps, suite, troop), навалица (jam, melee, rout, throng), много неща събрани заедно, маса (accumulation, aggregation, body, bulk, concretion, gross, heap, heaps of, herd, lashings, lot, lump, mass, oodles, pack, regiment, ruck, scad, shoal, slathers, stack, swarm, table, volume, volumes), блъсканица (cram, melee, press, squash, throng), блъскам се (beat about, crash, dash, hurtle, jar, plod, press forward, puzzle, snag). (various references) | |
Chinese | 群 (flock, group), 甡 (multitude), 人群, 擁 (crowded, thong, to hold, to support). (various references) | |
Czech | zástup (file, mob, multitude, throng), tlaèenice (crush, hustle, jam, jamming, overcrowding, squash, squeeze, throng), stísnit, spousta (heap, heaps of, host, legion, load, lots, pack, Peck, plenty, spate, stack, volume), shromáždit se (assemble, collect, concentrate on smth., congregate, convene, flog together, gather, get together, group, rally, troop), shluknout se (assemble, crowd round, crowd together, gather), sbìh (concourse, rout, row), přeplnit (overcrowd, overfill), přecpat (clutter up, overcrowd, overfeed, overstock), parta (batch, bunch, crew, gang, lot, outfit, set, team), nahrnout se, nacpat (cram, jam, pack, stuff), maèkat se (crease, throng), dav (concourse, horde, mob, populace, rabble, swarm, throng). (various references) | |
Danish | mængd (accumulation, heap, mass, multitude, pile). (various references) | |
Dutch | menigte (accumulation, heap, mass, multitude, pile), massa (accumulation, heap, lump, mass, multitude, pile), hoop (accumulation, are, bevy, cluster, collection, good great group, group, heap, herd, hope, mass, multitude, pack, pile, set, stack), drom (accumulation, heap, mass, multitude, pile), boel (accumulation, heap, mass, multitude, pile, quantity). (various references) | |
Esperanto | homamaso (mass, multitude), amaso (heap, mass, multitude, pile). (various references) | |
Faeroese | mongd (accumulation, heap, lump, mass, multitude, pile, quantity), hópur (accumulation, are, bevy, cluster, collection, group, heap, herd, lump, mass, multitude, pack, pile, set, swarm). (various references) | |
Farsi | چپیدن , گروه (A, Administration, Army, Assembly, Bunch, Class, Clinch, Clique, Cluster, Cohort, Company, Concourse, Corps, Covey, Ensign, Flock, Gang, Group, Kind, Outfit, Pack, Rout, School, Seaboard, Shoal, Skulk, Team, Throng), جمعیت (Army, Bike, Company, Flock, Gang, Group, Habitancy, Heap, Herd, Mob, Party, People, Population, Press, Society, Throng), انبوه مردم (Mob), ازدحام کردن (Flock, Huddle, Mob, Overcrowd, Press, Scrouge, Swarm, Throng), ازدحام (Drove, Host, Huddle, Hurtle, Press, Rabble, Swarm, Throng, Turnout), اجتماع (Assemblage, Assembly, Collection, Commonweal, Community, Hurricane, Milieu, Muster, Society, Turnout), شلوغی (Bustle, Chaos, Jumble), بازوروفشارپرکردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | väkijoukko (mass of people, multitude). (various references) | |
French | foule (crowding, crush), masse (crush), amas. (various references) | |
Frisian | mannichte (mass, multitude). (various references) | |
German | Menge (accumulation, amount, assemblage, bulk, bundle, deal, forest, heap, host, load, lot, mass, measure, mob, multitude, pile, plenty, portion, quantity, quantum, quiverful, set, squash), haufen (accumulation, aggregate, batches, bunch, bundle, cloud, cluster, flock, gang, heap, huddle, load, lot, mass, mob, mound, multitude, pile, slew, stack, throng), Auflauf (casserole, pudding). (various references) | |
Greek | όχλοσ (canaille, commonalty, hoi polloi, mob, rabble, riffraff), συνωστίζω (jam), συνωστίζομαι (be crushed, be jammed, be pressed, huddle, jam, mob, scrimmage, swarm), συνοστίζομαι (swarm up, throng), στριμώχνω (corner, pack, press, put on the spot, sandwich, squeeze), στοιβάζω (cram, pile), πλήθοσ (a lot of, army, battalion, bevy, heaps, host, huddle, large number of, lots, multitude, plenty of, ruck, shoal, swarm, throng, troop), πλήθος,όχλος, πλήθος (horde, host of, multitude, throng). (various references) | |
Hebrew | המון (a great deal, a great many, a world of, herd, hoi polloi, legion, loads of, many, mass, mob, multitude, oodle, plenty, swarm, throng). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tolongás (bustle, crush, general rush, jam, press, rush, squash, squeeze), tömeg (accumulation, body, bulk, cloud, clump, concourse, concrete, confluence, conglomerate, crush, drove, gross, heap, hoi polloi, host, mass, mob, multiplicity, multitude, pack, pile, quantity, quantum, regiment, shoal, swarm, throng), sokaság (abundance, host, legion, multiplicity, multitude, numbers, plurality, sea, swarm, throng). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kelimun, germud (swarm around), desak (jostle, sound of crumpling paper), berkerumun (assemble, cluster around, come together, swarm over, teem, throng), berdesak-desak (jostle, lihat: desak). (various references) | |
Italian | folla (accumulation, crush, drove, heap, host, huddle, mass, mob, multitude, pile, rabble, throng), calca (congestion, crush, huddle, jam, mob, rabble, squash, squeeze, throng), affluenza (abundance, affluence, afflux, concourse, flow, influx, mass, multitude, plenty, throng). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 賑わい (activity, bustle, prosperity, turnout), 犇めき (clamour, jostle), 群集 (mob, multitude, social group, throng), 群集 (group, mob, multitude, throng), 群衆 (group, mob, multitude, throng), 群れ (bevy, clump, cluster, flock, group, herd, school, swarm), 人集り (throng), 人混み , 人出 (turnout), 人出 (turnout), 人だかり (throng), 大勢 (many), 大勢 (current thought, general trend, great number of people, many), 俗衆 (masses, people, the public), 密集 (close formation, dense). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぞくしゅう (custom, masses, people, the public, usage, vulgarity, worldliness), おおぜい (many), ぐんしゅう (group, mob, multitude, throng), ひしめき (clamour, jostle), ひとで (aide, hand, other hands, someone else's hands, starfish, turnout), ひとごみ (crowd of people), ひとだかり (throng), にぎわい (activity, bustle, prosperity, turnout), むれ (bevy, clump, cluster, flock, group, herd, school, swarm), みっしゅう (close formation, dense). (various references) | |
Korean | 군중 (mob, Multitude). (various references) | |
Manx | trouise (dowdy, literary garbage, rot, rubbish, slattern, sloven, trollop, trumpery; trash, trumpery; trash of person), sleih (family, inhabitants, people, populace, public, relations), jingey (cram, crowd up, crowding, crush, embed, jam, let in, move along, press, press forward, quoin, ram home, shove, shove forward, shoving, throng, thronging, wedge; indentation, wedging), chionnal (assembly, congregation, jam, mob, multitude, turn out, turn out of people). (various references) | |
Norwegian | mengde (quantity). (various references) | |
Papiamen | multitut (mass, multitude), monton (accumulation, heap, mass, multitude, pile). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | owdcray.(various references) | |
Polish | tłum (mass, multitude), masa (accumulation, heap, mass, multitude, pile). (various references) | |
Portuguese | multidão (accumulation, cloud, cluster, concourse, confluence, coven, crew, flock, heap, legion, many, mass, multitude, parade, people, pile, populace, rabble, ruck, shoal, swarm, throng). (various references) | |
Romanian | mulţime (accumulation, army, array, body, boodle, cloud, cluster, concourse, dozen, drove, fifty, flock, forest, generality, heap, herd, hive, host, huddle, lashing, manifold, mass, mob, multitude, muster, number, Peck, pile, plenty, populace, press, quantity, rabble, ream, shoal, sight, squash, stack, swarm, throng). (various references) | |
Russian | статисты, собираться толпа, толкотня (crowding, hustle, jostle), толпа (bike, boodle, drove, mob, posse, rabble, swarm, throng, troop), толпиться (herd, mob, overcrowd, squash, throng), компания (bunch, companionship, company, fellowship, gang, horde, party, steelmaker), гурьба, группа людей (band, body), набиваться битком, множество (a great deal, a great many, a lot of, a world of, abundance, array, bags of, cloud, dozens, ensemble, great number, heap, legion, manifold, mass, mountain, multiples, multiplicity, multitude, ocean, oodles, orgy, pack, pile, plurality, set, stacks of, the many, the million, thousand, throng), масса (army, array, bulk, congeries, handful, heap, heaps of, lashings, lot of, lots, lots of, lotsa, mass, mountain, multitude, passel, paste, ream, regiment, ruck, stock, stuff, the million, wealth of, weight, whale, wilderness). (various references) | |
Scottish | cruit (a harp, crowd or harp), teannaich (close, draw or crowd together), laom (a blaze, a crowd, go to shaw), greód (a crowd), bròd (a crowd, pride). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zakrčiti (block, congest, jam, lumber, make jam), trpati (jam, put), stesniti, sabiti se, pretrpati (clutter up, congest, glut, overcrowd, overload, pile, swamp), navaliti (fall on, go for, pitch, pour in, roll, rush, tuck in), gužva (affray, brawl, crush, jam, melee, pother, row, shindy, squeeze, stir, tussle), gomila (accumulation, agglomerate, aggregate, batch, concourse, congeries, flock, heap, huddle, mob, pile, pileup, plump, stack, swarm, throng). (various references) | |
Spanish | muchedumbre (horde, host, mass, mob, press, swarm, throng), multitud (army, drove, herd, horde, host, mob, multitude, shoal, swarm, throng). (various references) | |
Swedish | trängas (hustle, jostle one another, push, scramble, squash, throng), skock (flock, heap, herd, huddle, troop), mängd (accumulation, amount, capacity, extent, heap, incidence, lot, mass, multitude, no end of, pack, pile, quantity, quantum, set, shoal, throng, variety), hop (accumulation, batch, bunch, Covey, heap, herd, huddle, mass, multitude, pile, ruck), folksamling, folkmassa (boodle, concourse, crush, drove, mob). (various references) | |
Turkish | cemaat (boodle, caboodle, communion, community, congregation, flock, fold, parish, sect, troop), yığın (accumulation, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregation, bank, batch, budget, bulk, bundle, cartload, chunk, clamp, clump, collection, congeries, conglomerate, conglomeration, drove, flock, force, heap, Hill, huddle, lump, mass, mound, pack, Peck, pile, raft, slew, stack, swarm, tons, volume, wilderness), topluluk (army, cohort, colony, community, company, corps, coterie, ensemble, gathering, group, herd, hive, knot, party, push, set, society, troop), toplanmak (accumulate, agglomerate, assemble, band together, build, bunch, club, club together, cluster, collect, combine, congregate, convene, drift, flock, forgather, gather, get together, group, herd, horde, keep together, meet, meet in council, mob, muster, rally, reunite, roll up, shoal, sit, sit on, swarm, swarm to a place, throng, troop, troop together, troop up, turn out), sürü (cartload, cloud, Covey, crew, drove, flock, fold, gang, herd, horde, pack, regiment, run, shoal, swarm), sıkıştırmak (astringe, be urgent with smb., bear against, besiege, bombard, bottle up, clamp, clamp down, clinch, come down on, compact, compress, constrict, crush, drive smb. to the wall, dun, force, grind, grip, heckle, hurry, hustle, impact, impress, incarcerate, jam, jam in, lean on, lean upon, oppress, pin, pin down, pinch, ply, ply with, press, press for, press smb. close, push, push smb. to the wall, rush, shut in, slip into, squeeze, straiten, stress, tighten, tuck, wedge, weigh), kalabalık (army, assemblage, cohort, concourse, congested, congestion, cram, crop, crowded, crush, drove, flock, gaggle, gathering, hive, horde, host, huddle, legion, mob, multitude, multitudinous, populous, press, regiment, rush hour, shoal, spate, squash, throng, thronged, wilderness), izdiham (concourse, confluence, conflux, congestion, cram, jam, mob, multitude, press, squeeze, stampede, throng), doldurmak (charge, choke up, clog, complete, congest, cover in, fill, glut, infest, infuse, line, load, point up, ram, replenish, store, stuff, throng, top up, write out), bıktırmak (cloy, disgust, do to death, give the willies, irk, Pall, pall on, sicken, tire, wearisome, weary), arkadaş grubu, üşüşmek (flock, pour, press on, swarm, swarm to a place, throng), çokluk (affluence, ampleness, amplitude, commonness, considerable, fullness, fulness, heaviness, host, lashings, muchness, multeity, multiplicity, multitude, plenitude, plentifulness, plenty, plethora, plurality, superfluity, throng, vastness), ısrar etmek (be urgent about smth., claim, hang on, hold out, insist, persist, stand on, stand out for, stand upon, stick to it, support, urge). (various references) | |
Turkmen | tьmmeklemek (imbue), ьяюmeleс (mob, throng), hьmer (concourse). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | скупчуватися (accumulate, agglomerate, amass, collect, congest, conglomerate, flock, huddle, throng), сила-силенна (accumulation, basinful, ocean, orb, orgy, zillion), тіснитися, товчія, товпитися (besiege, cluster, jostle, mob, overcrowd, pile), компанія (bevy, clan, company, outfit, party, room), натовп (bike, confluence, conflux, drove, flock, huddle, mob, multitude, press, rabble, throng), нагромаджувати (accumulate, agglomerate, bulk, congest, pyramid, stockpile). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cánh đống, tụi (clique, crew), nhóm (bevy, coterie, galaxy, groupment, number, plump), lũ (band, bunch, confraternity, covey, flood, regiment, set, troop), anh ta cũng chẳng có gì để thiên hạ phải để nói. (various references) | |
Welsh | crwth (fiddle, hump, purring), tyrfa (host, multitude), twr (group, heap), torf (brigade, multitude). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | ugnim. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | turba. (various references) |
| Italian | 900-Modern | brigata. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | cacher. (various references) |
| Irish | 1000-Modern | sluagh. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||