1 | verb | cause to herd, drive, or crowd together 2 | verb | fill or occupy to the point of overflowing 3 | verb | to gather together in large numbers 4 | verb | approach a certain age or speed 5 | noun | a large number of things or people considered together 6 | noun | an informal body of friends (6 meanings)

kr'oud (IPA: krˈaʊd)

crowd (no hyphenation) (5 letters | 1 syllable)

1567 (Elizabethan era | European Renaissance) (458 years ago)

Old English

written: 2272nd most common (1 in 21739 words) ( > 99% noun | 0% verb)

spoken: 2858th most common (1 in 66667 words)

(includes some inflected forms)

crowded | crowding | crowds

herd | crowd together | push | bunch | crew | gang (total: 6)

overcrowd | herd | jam | mass | mob | pack | pile | pour | pullulate | stream | swarm | teem | throng | army | crush | ... (total: 25)

displace | move | fill | occupy | assemble | foregather | forgather | gather | meet | approach | come near | come on | draw close | draw near | go up | ... (total: 18)

allowed | aloud | avowed | bowed | cloud | cowed | disallowed | disavowed | endowed | enshroud | loud | ploughed | plowed | proud | shroud | ... (total: 18) (based on typical American pronunciation)

crowed | crown | crows

(none among common words)

crowd control | crowd out | crowd together

Far from the Madding Crowd (Thomas Hardy) | Our Crowd: The Great Jewish Families of New York (Stephen Birmingham)

The In Crowd | The Crowd | Four's a Crowd | Far from the Madding Crowd | A Face in the Crowd (total: 5)

crowd.com | crowd.net | crowd.org | crowd.info | crowd.biz (total: 5)

Jam in elbow to elbow | Jam-pack | Not leave enough room | Overfill | Three, in a saying | Three, it's said | Three, they say | Throng (total: 8) (based on all New York Times crossword puzzles 1994 to 2009)

11 (International English) | 11 (North American English)

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