The crowd

Definition

crowd /kraƱd/ n [CGp] ၁။ (က) လူအုပ္။ လူစုလူေဝး။ A crowd was already collecting outside the embassy gates. ❍ He pushed his way through the crowd. ❍ Police had to break up the crowd. ❍ crowd control. (ခ) ပရိသတ္။ The match attracted a large crowd/ a crowd of over 50 000. ❍ The crowd cheered the winning hit. ၂။ [CGp] ( infml often derog ) လူသိုက္။ တစ္သိုက္။ the media crowd ❍ I don't associate with that crowd. ၃။ the crowd [sing] ( sometimes derog ) လူအမ်ား။ အမ်ားသူငါ။ move with/ follow the crowd (ie do as everybody else does) ❍ He prefers to be one of the crowd. ❍ Her linguistic ability sets her apart from the crowd (ie makes her seem very different from and superior to everyone else). v ၁။ ~ about/ around/ round (sb/ sth) ဝိုင္းအံုသည္။ စု႐ံုး သည္။ We all crowded round (the table) to get a better view. ၂။ ျပည့္ႏွက္သည္။ က်ပ္ညပ္သည္။ ႀကိတ္ႀကိတ္တိုးသည္။ Tourists crowded the pavement. ၃။ ( infml ) ဖိခိုင္းသည္။ ေမာင္းသည္။ Don't crowd me— I need time to think! ❏ crowded adj ~ (with sth) ၁။ လူျပည့္က်ပ္ေနေသာ။ crowded buses/ streets/ rooms/ hotels ❍ London was very crowded. ❍ In spring the place is crowded with skiers. ၂။ ျပည့္သိပ္ေနေသာ။ a house crowded with paintings ❍ days crowded with activity ❍ We have a very crowded schedule. ❏ crowd in on sb [ PHRV ] စုၿပံဳေပၚထြက္လာသည္၊ က် လာသည္။ Memories crowded in on me. ❍ Social problems were crowding in on the country. ❏ crowd into/ onto sth; crowd in [ PHRV ] ေနရာ က်ဥ္းက်ဥ္းထဲ ႁပြတ္သိပ္ဝင္သည္။ We'd all crowded into Harriet's small sitting-room. ❍ Spectators crowded onto the terraces. ❍ There's room for everyone if we crowd in a bit. ❏ crowd sb/ sth into/ onto sth; crowd sb/ sth in [ PHRV ] ႁပြတ္သိပ္သြင္းသည္။ ႁပြတ္သိပ္ထည့္သည္။ They crowd people into/ onto the buses. ❍ Guests were crowded into the few remaining rooms. ❍ She crowds too much detail into her paintings. ❏ crowd sb/ sth out (of sth) [ PHRV ] ၁။ ေနရာ လြတ္ေအာင္ ဖယ္ထုတ္သည္။ The pub's regular customers are being crowded out by tourists. ၂။ မၿပိဳင္ႏိုင္ေအာင္ ဖိသည္။ Small shops are being crowded out by the big supermarkets. ကုန္ပေဒသာဆိုင္ႀကီးေတြေပၚလာေတာ့ ဆိုင္ ကေလးေတြ ျပဳတ္သြားတယ္။ ❏ crowd-puller n ( infml ) ပရိသတ္ကို ဆြဲေဆာင္ႏိုင္ေသာ သူ၊ အရာ။ ❏ crowds/a (whole) crowd (of) [ IDM ] လူအုပ္ႀကီး။ လူ အုပ္လိုက္။ It was easy to escape the crowds. ❍ There were crowds of people waiting to get in. ❍ A whole crowd of us arrived at the party uninvited.

Examples

1. The boys disappeared into the crowd.
2. A crowd of 30
3. 000
4. An angry crowd had gathered on the steps of the palace.
5. Crowds of people began making their way to the station.
6. He takes off his shirt and the crowd goes wild.
7. I spent an evening out with the usual crowd.