crowd vs rout

crowd and rout both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
crowd	Yes	No	Yes	No
rout	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, rout is a hyponym of crowd; that is, rout is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than crowd:

Other hyponyms of crowd include army, crush, jam, press, drove, horde, swarm, huddle, mob, rabble, phalanx, flock, troop.

crowd (noun)	rout (noun)
a large number of things or people considered together	an overwhelming defeat
an informal body of friends	a disorderly crowd of people

crowd (verb)	rout (verb)
to gather together in large numbers	cause to flee
cause to herd, drive, or crowd together	defeat disastrously
approach a certain age or speed	make a groove in
fill or occupy to the point of overflowing	dig with the snout