crowd
English
/kɹaʊd/
verb
Definitions
- (intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.
- (intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers
- (transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
- (transitive) To fill by pressing or thronging together
- (transitive) To push, to press, to shove.
- (nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
- (nautical) To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
- (transitive) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English crouden inherited from Old English crūdan (press) inherited from Proto-Germanic *krūdaną.
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*krūdaną
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- anticrowd English
- crowd-puller English
- crowder English
- crowdest English
- crowdeth English
- crowdfactoring English
- crowdfund English
- crowdfunder English
- crowdfunding English
- crowdlending English
- crowdless English
- crowdlessness English
- crowdlike English
- crowdpleaser English
- crowdsale English
- crowdsensing English
- crowdsource English
- crowdsourcer English
- crowdsourcing English
- crowdwork English
- crowdworker English
- factoring English
- flash English
- flashcrowd English
- fund English
- funding English
- lending English
- outcrowd English
- overcrowd English
- pleaser English
- puller English
- sale English
- sensing English
- source English
- sourcing English
- undercrowd English
- work English
- worker English
- Crowdfunding German
- bovenkruier Dutch, Flemish
- kruien Dutch, Flemish
- kruier Dutch, Flemish
- kruiwagen Dutch, Flemish
- crowdfunding French
- краудфандинг Russian
- crowdfunding Spanish, Castilian
- *grewt- Proto-Indo-European
- *krūdaną Proto-Germanic
- CF Japanese
- クラウドファンディング Japanese
- crūdan Old English
- croude Middle English
- crouden Middle English
- croudewayn Middle English
- crowde Middle English
- crowdyng Middle English
- crud Middle English
- crude Middle English
- crowdfunding Danish
- cruden Middle Dutch
- *krūdan gmw-pro
- *crūdan Old Dutch
- crud sco-osc
- sale
- work
- fund
- flash
- puller
- source
- worker
- pleaser
- crowder
- sensing
- funding
- lending
- crowdest
- crowdeth
- sourcing
- outcrowd
- crowdsale
- crowdwork
- crowdless
- crowdlike
- crowdfund
- overcrowd
- factoring
- anticrowd
- undercrowd
- flashcrowd
- crowdsource
- crowdworker
- crowdfunder
- crowd-puller
- crowdfunding
- crowdpleaser
- crowdsourcer
- crowdsensing
- crowdlending
- crowdlessness
- crowdsourcing
- crowdfactoring