crowd

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noun

1 large number of people in one place

ADJECTIVE

▪ big, bumper (BrE), capacity, enormous, good, great, huge, large, massive, packed, record, sell-out, vast

▪

The show played to capacity crowds.

▪ small

▪ gathering, growing

▪ assembled

▪

The president read a declaration to a vast assembled crowd.

▪ entire, whole

▪ jostling, milling, surging

▪

We pushed our way through the milling crowds of guests.

▪ noisy

▪ admiring, adoring, appreciative, cheering, enthusiastic, excited, expectant

▪ angry, hostile, partisan

▪ rush-hour (esp. BrE)

▪ diverse, motley (esp. BrE)

▪

the usual motley crowd of tourists, hawkers and pigeons

▪ football, theatre/theater

▪ home, hometown (= at a sports game) (AmE)

VERB + CROWD

▪ attract, bring, bring in, draw, gather, get, pull, pull in

▪

Boxing is a sport that always attracts large crowds.

▪ break up, disperse

▪

Police were called to disperse the crowd.

▪ control

▪ address, entertain, play to, work

▪ join, mingle with

▪ avoid

▪

If you want to avoid the crowds, get there early.

▪ face

▪ scan, search, watch

▪ get lost in

▪

She was afraid she might get lost in the crowd.

CROWD + VERB

▪ assemble, collect, gather

▪

An expectant crowd gathered outside his house.

▪ grow, swell

▪

The crowd grew to over 15 000.

▪ rush

▪

The crowd rushed forward.

▪ flock, mill, throng sth, throng around sb/sth

▪

Crowds have been flocking to the beaches in this hot weather.

▪

crowds thronging the streets of Rio

▪

A crowd thronged around the wounded man.

▪ disperse, melt away, thin out

▪

After the ambulance drove off, the crowd dispersed.

▪ part

▪ chant, cheer, erupt, roar, scream

▪ boo, hiss, jeer

▪ line the street

▪

Crowds lined the streets of the city as the president's car approached.

CROWD + NOUN

▪ control

▪ favourite/favorite

▪

She didn't win but she was clearly the crowd favourite/favorite.

▪ noise

▪ scene

PREPOSITION

▪ among a/the crowd

▪

A bewildered child was wandering among the crowd.

▪ in a/the crowd

▪

I saw some familiar faces in the crowd.

▪ through a/the crowd

▪

She fought her way through the crowd.

▪ crowd of

▪

a big crowd of football supporters

PHRASES

▪ the back of a crowd, the front of a crowd, the middle of a crowd

2 the crowd ordinary people

VERB + THE CROWD

▪ be one of, follow

▪

She's happy to follow the crowd.

▪ stand out from

▪

We all like to think we stand out from the crowd (= are different from other people).

PHRASES

▪ a face in the crowd

▪

To her I'm just another face in the crowd.

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verb

Crowd is used with these nouns as the object: ↑hall, ↑marketplace, ↑street