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The correct spelling is crowds.
How to pronounce crowds
noun
IPA: /kɹaʊdz/
Say it like: Cro-wds
The correct spelling is crowds. A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order. For example: "After the movie let out, a crowd of people pushed through the exit doors."
Usage Examples
“After the movie let out, a crowd of people pushed through the exit doors.”
“There was a crowd of toys pushed beneath the couch where the children were playing.”
“That obscure author's fans were a nerdy crowd which hardly ever interacted before the Internet age.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
- 2.Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
- 3.(with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
- 4.A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
- 5.(now dialectal) A fiddle.
verb
- 1.To press forward; to advance by pushing.
- 2.To press together or collect in numbers
- 3.To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
- 4.To fill by pressing or thronging together
- 5.(often used with "out of" or "off") To push, to press, to shove.
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