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Definition of Crowd together
1. Verb. To gather together in large numbers. "Men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah"
Specialized synonyms: Mass, Overcrowd, Pour, Pullulate, Stream, Swarm, Teem, Herd, Jam, Mob, Pack, Pile, Throng
Generic synonyms: Assemble, Foregather, Forgather, Gather, Meet
Derivative terms: Crowd, Crowding
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crowd Together
Literary usage of Crowd together
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Mineralogy:: Or Coloured Figures Intended to Elucidate the by James Sowerby (1806)
"... it is only a series of radiating, or partly radiating crystals, which crowd
together wedge-like, as happens with calcareous Spar, terminating with ..."
2. Secwana Dictionary: Secwana-English and English-Secwana by John Tom Brown (1895)
"To crowd together to, or at; to press upon. ... To gather together, as stones, etc.
; to gather a crowd together. ..."
3. The Oceanic Languages: Their Grammatical Structure, Vocabulary, and Origin (1907)
"H. banani, bahan, A. bah- hama, 2, 4, 5, 10, to shut, cover, conceal, be mute.
Bono-gor i, to crowd together (gor i) about him or it ; Bonbon, ..."
4. The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White (1906)
"Now as to the business of food : as these animals are actuated by instinct to
hunt for necessary food, they should not, one would suppose, crowd together in ..."
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