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Alliance is a related term of crowd.


In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between alliance and crowd

is that alliance is (obsolete) to connect or unite by alliance; to ally while crowd is (obsolete) a crwth, an ancient celtic plucked string instrument.

As nouns the difference between alliance and crowd

is that alliance is (uncountable) the state of being allied while crowd is a group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order or crowd can be (obsolete) a crwth, an ancient celtic plucked string instrument.

As verbs the difference between alliance and crowd

is that alliance is (obsolete) to connect or unite by alliance; to ally while crowd is to press forward; to advance by pushing or crowd can be (obsolete|intransitive) to play on a crowd; to fiddle.

alliance

English

(alliance)

Alternative forms

* alliaunce

Noun

  • (uncountable) The state of being allied.
    • matrimonial alliances'''; an '''alliance between church and state, or between two countries
  • (countable) The act of allying or uniting.
  • (countable) A union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league.
  • (countable) Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity.
  • * C. J. Smith
    • the alliance of the principles of the world with those of the gospel
  • * Mansel
    • the alliance between logic and metaphysics
  • (with the definite article) The persons or parties allied.
    • (Udall)

    Synonyms

    * (union by relationship in qualities) connection, affinity, union * (act of allying) union * (persons or parties allied) coalition, league, confederation, team (informal)

    Related terms

    * ally

    Verb

    (allianc)
  • (obsolete) To connect or unite by alliance; to ally.

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    crowd

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) . Cognate with Dutch kruien.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To press forward; to advance by pushing.
    • The man crowded into the packed room.
  • To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.
    • They crowded through the archway and into the park.
  • * Addison:
    • The whole company crowded about the fire.
  • * Macaulay:
    • Images came crowding on his mind faster than he could put them into words.
  • To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
    • He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Crowd us and crush us.
  • To fill by pressing or thronging together.
  • * Prescott
    • The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign.
  • To push, to press, to shove.
    • tried to crowd her off the sidewalk
  • * 2006 , Lanna Nakone, Every Child Has a Thinking Style (ISBN 0399532463), page 73:
    • Alexis's mementos and numerous dance trophies were starting to crowd her out of her little bedroom.
  • (nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
  • To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
  • To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
    • Derived terms
    * crowd control * crowd manipulation * crowd out * crowd psychology * crowd sail

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
  • :
  • *
  • *:Athelstan Arundel walked homeHe walked the whole way, walking through crowds , and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
  • *
  • *:He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance.she found her mother standing up before the seat on which she had sat all the evening searching anxiously for her with her eyes, and her father by her side.
  • Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
  • :
  • (lb) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
  • * (1809-1892)
  • *:To fool the crowd with glorious lies.
  • *(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • *:He went not with the crowd to see a shrine.
  • A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
  • :
    • Synonyms
    * (group of things) aggregation, cluster, group, mass * (group of people) audience, group, multitude, public, swarm, throng * (the "lower orders" of people) everyone, general public, masses, rabble, mob, unwashed
    Derived terms
    * crowd catch * crowd-pleaser * crowd-puller * work the crowd

    Etymology 2

    Celtic, from Welsh crwth.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A crwth, an Ancient Celtic plucked string instrument.
  • * Ben Jonson
    • A lackey that can warble upon a crowd a little.
  • (now dialectal) A fiddle.
  • * 1819': wandering palmers, hedge-priests, Saxon minstrels, and Welsh bards, were muttering prayers, and extracting mistuned dirges from their harps, '''crowds , and rotes. — Walter Scott, ''Ivanhoe
  • * 1684': That keep their consciences in cases, / As fiddlers do with ' crowds and bases — Samuel Butler, "Hudibras"

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To play on a crowd; to fiddle.
  • * Massinger
    • Fiddlers, crowd on.

    References

    (Webster 1913)

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