<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>a large number of persons gathered closely together; throng: a crowd of angry people.</li><li>any large number of persons.</li><li>any group or set of persons with something in common: The restaurant attracts a theater crowd.</li><li>audience; attendance: Opening night drew a good crowd.</li><li>the common people; the masses: He feels superior to the crowd.</li><li>Synonyms: populace, plebeians, proletariat.</li><li>a large number of things gathered or considered together.</li><li>Sociology: a temporary gathering of people responding to common stimuli and engaged in any of various forms of collective behavior.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object):</strong></p><ul><li>to gather in large numbers; throng; swarm.</li><li>Synonyms: thrust, drive, herd, assemble.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object):</strong></p><ul><li>to press closely together; force into a confined space; cram: to crowd clothes into a suitcase.</li><li>to push; shove.</li><li>to fill to excess; fill by pressing or thronging into.</li><li>to place under pressure or stress by constant solicitation: to crowd a debtor for payment; to crowd someone with embarrassing questions.</li></ul>