Meaning

5 senses
  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.

    Gedränge, Menge, Volk

    толпа́tolpá

    на́товпnátovp, гуртhurt

  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.

    Haufen

    ку́чаkúča

    ку́паkúpa, ку́чаkúča

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

    толпа́tolpá, сбродsbrod

  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.

  5. (dialectal)A fiddle.

More definitions
  • a large number of things or people considered together
  • an informal body of friends

Examples

1112 sentences
  1. There was a large crowd there.

    Там був великий натовп. — deniko

    ruТам была большая толпа. — soweli_Elepanto

  2. A crowd was gathering around him.

    Навколо нього збирався натовп. — brambury

    ruВокруг него собиралась толпа. — marafon

    deEine Menschenmenge versammelte sich um ihn. — Wolf

  3. They found Tom in the crowd.

    Вони знайшли Тома у натовпі. — deniko

    ruОни нашли Тома в толпе. — SilverBaby

    deSie fanden Tom in der Menschenmenge. — jakov

  4. The soccer game attracted a large crowd.

    Футбольний матч привернув увагу великого натовпу. — deniko

    deDas Fußballspiel zog eine große Menschenmenge an. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  5. I made my way through the crowd.

    Я проклав свій шлях крізь натовп. — mutternoise

    ruЯ проложил свой путь через толпу. — Biga

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
group of people:
group of things:
Русский
By meaning 3
group of people:
group of things:
the “lower orders” of people:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
group of people:
group of things:

Origin

From Middle English crouden, from Old English crūdan, from Proto-West Germanic *krūdan, fr

From Middle English crouden, from Old English crūdan, from Proto-West Germanic *krūdan, from Proto-Germanic *krūdaną, *kreudaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *grewt- (“to push; press”). Cognate with German Low German kroden (“to push, shove”), Dutch kruien (“to push, shove”).

Inherited from Middle English crowde, from Welsh crwth or a Celtic cognate.

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