rout vs crowd

rout and crowd both are nouns.

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

As nouns, crowd is a hypernym of rout; that is, crowd is a word with a broader meaning than rout:

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

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