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What's the word to describe a person who likes to be with or before a crowd of people, e.g., one who likes to go where people gather or to go on a stage where a log of people watch. This question is not totally clear to me. You seem to want one word for two different things. 1.) Enjoying to be with a crowd is something quite different from enjoying to be before a crowd. 2.) To go where people gather or to go on stage where people watch you, are also two different things. *A person can enjoy being in a crowd but be scared to death if he/she would have to face that crowd. *A person can love to go where people gather but be too shy to ever go on stage and have people watching. Some people may feel happy in both circumstances. But then should the ' or ' in the question not be replaced by ' and ' ?
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wooing Ooh! I hope it turns out the way you want it to. ("turns out" means that some final conclusion has been reached: someone finds out that the illness is curable...or not; the new recipe worked, or failed; you and your current love will either decide to make a future together...or not.)
I've never heard of ochlophile. Gregarious is a good word for a person who enjoys being in a crowd of people and talking with them. "Ham" is a slang term for someone who enjoys being on a stage in front of people--though it usually refers to acting with great emotion, and not to someone who plays or sings music--unless they make exaggerated faces, etc. I can't think of a single word that covers all types; I would just refer to them as "a person who enjoys performing", or "loves to be up on stage".
Oh! Did you mean, perhaps, someone who loves to have peoples' attention on them, whether they can act/sing/dance well or not, or perhaps a child who misbehaves because any attention is better than no attention? The person who is certain that everyone at the party thinks his old jokes are hilarious? Someone who constantly refers to their: beautiful hair, expensive new car, or the fact that they do their work better than anyone else in the office?
This kind of person is a showoff. (Show-off; they like to show off their whatever.)
Good luck in your new job!
Edited the first ex., having realized it might give the wrong impression.
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J, ochlophile was meant to be a jochular counterpart to the earlier suggested ochlophob(e).
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Ah. Merci.
Edit: I never heard of ochlophobe, either! :-)
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[Oh! Did you mean, perhaps, someone who loves to have peoples' attention on them, whether they can act/sing/dance well or not, or perhaps a child who misbehaves because any attention is better than no attention? The person who is certain that everyone at the party thinks his old jokes are hilarious? Someone who constantly refers to their: beautiful hair, expensive new car, or the fact that they do their work better than anyone else in the office?
This kind of person is a showoff. ( No I think you're referring to a politician.
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Ah. Merci.
Edit: I never heard of ochlophobe, either! :-) From Greek ochlos meaning crowd and phobos fear. I suppose you could also coin laophobe for someone afraid of people, from laos people.
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laophobe
Not to be confused with lalophobia.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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laophobe
Not to be confused with lalophobia. ...or lalaphobia, which is fear of the third teletubby ... PS: zmjezhd - did you mean laleophobia/laliaphobia - fear of talking? Our daughter has the opposite - laleophilia.
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In my native language, there is a word literally meaning "Gone mad when people gathereed" to describe a person who will get excited when people gather around him and he tries to get attention by, say, performing.
Is there a english word for this?
Do inform me if you see any corrections needed in my written English. 
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 I'm not sure. I just saw the word in an article and used it here to try to show off my increasing glossary of English  . I checked again for its connotation. Maybe it turned out not the meaning i want. Any way, just take fun at it. Thanks for your explanation..
Do inform me if you see any corrections needed in my written English.
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