ADJ
- big, bumper, capacity, good, great, huge, large, massive, record, sell-out, vast
- The show played to capacity crowds
- small
- gathering, growing
- assembled
- The president read a declaration to a vast assembled crowd
- jostling, madding, milling, surging
- We pushed our way through the milling crowds of guests
- admiring, appreciative, cheering, enthusiastic, excited, expectant
- angry, hostile, partisan
- rush-hour
- motley
- the usual motley crowd of tourists, hawkers and pigeons
- football, theatre
- home (at a football match)
VERB + CROWD
- attract, draw, pull (in)
- Boxing is a sport that always attracts large crowds
- break up, disperse
- Police were called to disperse the crowd
- control
- address, play to
- join, mingle with
- be one of, follow
- She's happy to follow the crowd
- stand out from
- We all like to think we stand out from the crowd (= are different from other people)
CROWD + VERB
- assemble, collect, gather
- An expectant crowd gathered outside his house
- grow, swell
- The crowd grew to over 15,000
- flock, mill, throng
- Crowds have been flocking to the beaches in this hot weather. A crowd thronged around the wounded man
- disperse, melt away, thin out
- After the ambulance drove off, the crowd dispersed
- cheer, roar
- boo, hiss, jeer
- line the street
- Crowds lined the streets of the city as the president's car approached
PREP
- among a/the ~
- A bewildered child was wandering among the crowd
- in a/ the ~
- I saw some familiar faces in the crowd
- through a/the ~
- She fought her way through the crowd
- ~ of
- a big crowd of football supporters
PHRASES
- the back/front/middle of a crowd 2 the crowd ordinary people