crowd
Because it is a word with a single syllable, crowd is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofcrowd
- A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
Example: "After the movie let out, a crowd of people pushed through the exit doors."
- Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
Example: "There was a crowd of toys pushed beneath the couch where the children were playing."
- (with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
- A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
Example: "That obscure author's fans were a nerdy crowd which hardly ever interacted before the Internet age."
- To press forward; to advance by pushing.
Example: "The man crowded into the packed room."
- To press together or collect in numbers
Example: "They crowded through the archway and into the park."
- To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
Example: "He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen."
- To fill by pressing or thronging together
- (often used with "out of" or "off") To push, to press, to shove.
Example: "They tried to crowd her off the sidewalk."
- To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
- (of a square-rigged ship) To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
- To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
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