a large number of things or people considered together
"a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers"
A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
Alternative form of crwth
In plain English: A crowd is a large group of people gathered together in one place.
"The concert crowd jumped up and down when their favorite band started playing."
Usage: Do not use "crowd" to mean a musical instrument; that is an archaic spelling of "crwth." As a common noun, it refers to a large number of people gathered together in one place.
to gather together in large numbers
"men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah"
To press forward; to advance by pushing.
"The magician tried to play on the crowd by making his assistant disappear behind a curtain of smoke, but they kept laughing and asking for an encore instead."
To play on a crowd; to fiddle.
In plain English: To crowd means to push people or things so tightly together that there is very little space left for anyone or anything else to move.
"The small bus stopped because too many people crowded onto the platform."
Usage: Do not use "crowd" as a verb to mean playing music or fiddling, as that is an archaic and obsolete usage. Instead, use it today only to describe people pressing together tightly in a group.
The word "crowd" comes from the Old English crūdan, which originally meant to push or press. It traveled into modern English through Middle English while retaining its core sense of pressing together.