crowd
1. a large number of things or people considered together (Freq. 35)
- a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers
• Hypernyms:
gathering, assemblage
• Hyponyms:
army, crush, jam, press, drove,
horde, swarm, huddle, mob, rabble, rout,
phalanx, troop, flock
2. an informal body of friends (Freq. 1)
- he still hangs out with the same crowd
• Syn:
crew, gang, bunch
• Derivationally related forms:
gang (for: gang)
• Hypernyms:
gathering, assemblage
1. cause to herd, drive, or crowd together (Freq. 6)
- We herded the children into a spare classroom
• Syn:
herd
• Derivationally related forms:
crowding, herd (for: herd), herder (for: herd)
• Hypernyms:
move, displace
• Hyponyms:
overcrowd
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Somebody ----s somebody PP
- Somebody ----s something PP
2. fill or occupy to the point of overflowing (Freq. 3)
- The students crowded the auditorium
• Derivationally related forms:
crowding
• Hypernyms:
occupy, fill
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
- The crowds crowd in the streets
3. to gather together in large numbers (Freq. 2)
- men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah
• Syn:
crowd together
• Derivationally related forms:
crowding
• Hypernyms:
meet, gather, assemble, forgather, foregather
• Hyponyms:
mass, overcrowd, pour, swarm, stream,
teem, pullulate, herd, throng, mob, pack,
pile, jam
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s PP
4. approach a certain age or speed (Freq. 1)
- She is pushing fifty
• Syn:
push
• Hypernyms:
approach, near, come on, go up, draw near,
draw close, come near
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
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