Synonyms for crowd
- noun
- verb
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Group of people
throng, audience, horde, swarm, multitude, press, congregation, spectator, assemblage, public, congregate, legion, number, many, assembly, drove, jam, host, troop, pour, pack, pac US, cram
2. Mob — the so-called lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar
mob, rabble, populace, masses, general public, riff-raff, polloi, tag-rag dated, commonalty rare
4. Mass — several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other
Other
Verb
Definitions
- n. 1
Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
There was a crowd of toys pushed beneath the couch where the children were playing.
- n. 2
The so-called lower orders of people; the populace; the vulgar.
- v. 1
To press together or collect in numbers.
They crowded through the archway and into the park.
- v. 2
To press forward; to advance by pushing.
The man crowded into the packed room.
Related words
- Word family
- crowdsourcing
- Phrases
- crowd in on crowd out crowd together crowd in work the crowd wrong crowd crowd control barrier
- Is a kind of
- group lot
Choose the right word
Collection, crowd, gathering, group, and multitude have the unorganized and promiscuous character of the assemblage; the other terms come under the general idea of assembly.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- audience When the bell rang, the audience took their seats.
- swarm A swarm of flies want to eat your bread and fruit.
- horde Tom was surrounded by a horde of screaming fangirls.
- throng He was surrounded by a throng of reporters.
- mob The mob gathered round the car like so many flies.
- rabble Tom called the striking workers a rabble.
By length
- 3 letters
- lot1, jam1, mob1, pac1
- 4 letters
- many2, mass1, host1, push1, pack1, crew1, gang1, pour1, pile1, urge1, herd1, cram1, rote1
- 5 letters
- press1, bunch1, drove1, crush1, troop1, shove1, barge1, swarm1, horde1, posse2
- 6 letters
- public2, number2, circle2, legion2, masses2, violin3, hustle2, concur2, huddle2, rabble2, throng1, jostle2, polloi2
- 7 letters
- company3, cluster2, squeeze1, becrowd
- 8 letters
- audience3, assembly3, assemble3, populace3, compress2, condense2
- 9 letters
- gathering3, multitude3, spectator3
- 10 letters
- collection3, assemblage3, congregate3, commonalty
- 11 letters
- aggregation4
- 12 letters
- congregation4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (many2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- foule
- Español
- acervo
- Deutsch
- Menschenauflauf