Crowd and Formation

Crowd

Crowd noun - A great number of persons or creatures massed together.

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Formation and crowd are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Formation" instead a noun "Crowd".

Nearby Words: crowded, crowding

Formation noun - The way in which something is sized, arranged, or organized.

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Crowd and formation are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Crowd" instead a noun "Formation".

Nearby Words: form, formed, forming, format, formative

good	good crowd	good formation
best	best crowd	best formation
typical	typical crowd	typical formation
common	common crowd	common formation
Other adjectives: entire, dense, massive, large, packed, bad, new, giant.

Riot Police in armored gear with shields will do this in formation, as one of many crowd intimidation tactics.

Source: The Slow Walk
The phenomenon was anticipated in Larry Niven's 1972 short story, "Flash Crowd", in which the spontaneous formation of huge mobs at the site of interesting events was the inevitable consequence of cheap, readily-accessible teleportation.

Source: Flashmob
Spontaneous Crowd Formation: At Fetterman's assembly, the crowd turns into an Angry Mob... which turns into a passive crowd again as the heroes step forward.

Source: Web Comic / Dead Of Summer

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