crowd

1. a large number of things or people gathered or considered together. 2. a particular group of people, esp considered as a social or business set. the crowd from the office.

a small, exclusive group of people who are perceived as fashionable or influential: She desperately wanted to be part of the in-crowd.

Examples of Crowd A group watching a street performer. Fans at a baseball game.

: ordinary people : people who are not viewed or treated as special or unusual. kids trying to distinguish themselves from the crowd. She prefers to be one of the crowd.

The correct spelling is "crowd" for both the noun and the verb. Or at least that's how it is now. Wiktionary is correct that at one point in time it was spelled "croud". Because this spelling is no longer used, it will not be listed in regular dictionaries.

Curved monitors tend to minimize image distortion and reduce reflections and glare from surrounding light sources. The curvature of the screen helps to direct light towards the user, optimizing visibility and reducing the impact of external lighting conditions.

The core theme is the loneliness in being one of the crowd, subject to its fleetingly concerned curiosity in moments of untimely tragedy and its active indifference to the individual's plight.

The CROWD acronym (for Completion Questions, Recall Questions, Open-ended Questions, Wh- Questions, and Distancing) helps in remembering the types of prompts a teacher should use while reading dialogically. Unlike the PEER acronym, CROWD does not denote a particular sequence.

A huge crowd gathered in a square outside the Kremlin walls. It took some two hours before the crowd was fully dispersed. The crowd were enormously enthusiastic. The explosions took place in shopping centres as crowds of people were shopping for Mother's Day.

To go somewhere before many others do.

The OED says the noun comes from the verb, which has a sense of press, push, or hurry. So to be a crowd there has to be enough people they feel pushed together, either literally or figuratively. Ten people in a small room is a crowd. Ten people in a large car park is not a crowd.

Crowds can actually be understood as positive and good when looking beyond the outsider viewpoint. For over 100 years, social psychologists have developed different theories to explain how the psychology of a crowd is different from and may interact with individuals within it.