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# crowd

«crowd» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large group of people together in one place** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a crowd, crowds); verb (crowd, crowds, crowded, crowding)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A crowd is a large group of people together in one place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crowd/#m1)

2) To crowd means to gather closely together, or to fill a place so it is very full. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crowd/#m2)

3) To crowd someone means to stand too close to them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crowd/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and safety, crowds gather at matches, concerts, markets and parades; children should agree on a meeting place in case they get lost in a crowd and find a staff member or a police officer if they do. In stories, a crowd cheers or gasps. In maths, crowd sizes are estimated and rounded (about 40,000 fans). Phrases: in the crowd, a crowd of, crowd around, the crowd went wild, crowded.

### examples

- A huge crowd watched the parade. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crowd/#x1)
- The crowd cheered when our team scored. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crowd/#x2)
- If you get lost in a crowd, find someone in uniform. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crowd/#x3)
- People crowded around the street magician. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crowd/#x4)
- Don't crowd him; give him some space. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crowd/#x5)
- The train was crowded this morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crowd/#x6)
- About 50,000 people were in the crowd. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crowd/#x7)
- Hold my hand so we don't get separated in the crowd. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crowd/#x8)
- The beach is disgracefully crowded this season. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crowd/#x9)

### note

Countable: a crowd, crowds. Adjective: crowded (very full of people). A crowd can take a singular or plural verb in British English: «the crowd was/were cheering». Crowd = people; herd/flock = animals.

### In the corpora

- [Desert locusts are grasshoppers that, when crowded, change colour and behaviour and form swarms of billions that eat crops.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/37-butterflies-beetles-flies-mosquitoes-grasshoppers/16/)
- [Ueno Zoo in Tokyo opened in 1882 and is Japan's oldest zoo; giant panda twins born there in 2021 drew huge crowds.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/117-zoos-around-the-world-and-myths-put-right/13/)
- [Feeding huge crowds of pigeons with bread makes too many pigeons, and birds packed in crowds spread mess and illness more easily.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/221-pigeons-head-bobbing-homing-and-city-cliffs/14/)
- [That's just like him, says the Rat — he hates crowds and parties.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/27-willows-ch1-part3-otter-badger-and-toad/5/)
- [More similes do not make a better poem: a few strong ones beat a crowd of weak ones.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «crowd» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crowd/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.