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A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.

Example: 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.

Example: There was a crowd of toys pushed beneath the couch where the children were playing.

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

A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.

Example: That obscure author's fans were a nerdy crowd which hardly ever interacted before the Internet age.

To press forward; to advance by pushing.

Example: The man crowded into the packed room.

To press together or collect in numbers

Example: They crowded through the archway and into the park.

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

Example: He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen.

To fill by pressing or thronging together

(now dialectal) A fiddle.

To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

An archaic stringed instrument associated particularly with Wales, though once played widely in Europe, and characterized by a vaulted back and enough space for the player to stop each of the six strings on the fingerboard.