• Arabic: (kaum)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (yìduī)

• Dutch: stapel
• Finnish: pino, kasa
• French: monceau
• Georgian: გროვა (grova)
• German: Haufen
• Icelandic: þyrping
• Italian: mucchio
• Japanese: 積み重ね (つみかさね, tsumikasane)
• Korean: 무더기 (mudeogi)
• Portuguese: pilha
• Russian: куча
• Spanish: montón
• Swedish: mängd, massa, hög
• Thai: (gong)

• Arabic: (ħášid)
• trreq Armenian
• trreq Basque
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (rénqún), 群众 (qúnzhòng)

• Czech: dav
• Dutch: menigte
• Finnish: joukko, väentungos
• French: foule
• Georgian: ბრბო (brbo)
• German: Gedränge
• trreq Hebrew
• trreq Hindi
• Hungarian: tömeg
• Icelandic: þyrping
• Italian: folla, turba
• Japanese: 人込み (ひとごみ, hitogomi)
• Korean: 군중 (gunjung)
• Kurdish:
• Latin: turba, vulgus, multitudo
• Polish: tłum
• Portuguese: multidão
• trreq Romanian
• Russian: толпа (tolpá)
• Spanish: muchedumbre
• trreq Swahili
• Swedish: folkmängd , folkmassa , massa
• Thai: (máhăa chon)
• Turkish: kalabalık

• ttbc Arabic: (ħášid)
• ttbc Dutch: menigte , meute
• ttbc Irish: slua
• ttbc Japanese: 大勢 (ōzei)
• ttbc Old English: ġemang, þrēat
• ttbc Slovak: dav
• ttbc Telugu: గుంపు (guMpu)

Derived terms

• crowd catch
• crowd-pleaser

Etymology 2

From Welsh crwth.

Noun

1. A crwth.
2. italbrac 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

For other users, see Crowd (disambiguation).

A crowd is a group of people. The crowd may have a common purpose or set of emotions, such as at a political rally, at a sports game, or during looting, or simply be made up of many people going about their business in a busy area (eg shopping).

Terminology

The term "mob" (from the Latin mobile vulgus, 'fickle crowd') carries a connotation of a crowd with an (often angry and sometimes riotous) agenda.

In human sociology, the term "mobbed" simply means "extremely crowded", as in a busy mall or shop. In animal behavior mobbing is a technique where many individuals of one species "gang up" on a larger individual of another species to drive them away. Mobbing behavior is often seen in birds.

It is generally considered that a crowd consists of more than 20 people of which no more than 10 can be your friends.

Social aspects of crowds

Social aspects are concerned with the formation, management and control of crowds, both from the point of view of individuals and groups seeking to persuade a crowd to their view (e.g., political rallies), and from the point of view of society which usually attempts to contain them in an acceptable manner, or discharge their energies whilst averting excesses or mob behaviour, ultimately a decision made politically and usually executed by law enforcement.

Psychological aspects of crowds

Psychological aspects are concerned with the psychology of the crowd as a group and the psychology of those who allow their will and emotions to be informed by the crowd (both discussed more comprehensively under crowd psychology), and other individual responses to crowds such as crowd-sickness, claustrophobia and agoraphobia.

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