Crowd
Crowd noun - A group of people sharing a common interest and relating together socially.
Usage example: the fashionable crowd at the polo tournament
Set is a synonym for crowd in group topic. In some cases you can use "Set" instead a noun "Crowd", when it comes to topics like large assembly, special group of friends.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| live | live crowd | live set |
| old | old crowd | old set |
| good | good crowd | good set |
| full | full crowd | full set |
| Other adjectives: best, usual, common, right, small, entire, massive, large, big, great, huge, wrong, main, new, random, giant, younger. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Once per game, they can throw a lit match into the crowd and set all their targets on fire.
Source: Video Game / Epic Mafia - The crowd wasn't exactly good prior to this either— somebody drove a truck through the crowd during Fatboy Slim's set.
Source: Horrible / Music - This case involves a guy who robbed an armored truck, then escaped into a crowd of people dressed exactly like him (that he had set up using Craigslist).
Source: Lost in a Crowd
Cite this Source
Set and Crowd. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/crowd/set
Crowd & Set. N.p., 2016. Web. 14 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/crowd/set>.
Set or Crowd. 2016. Accessed August 14, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/crowd/set.
Google Ngram Viewer shows how "crowd" and "set" have occurred on timeline