Definitions for crowded

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crowded crowd·ed

Spelling: [krou-did]

IPA: /ˈkraʊ dɪd/

Crowded is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 107 anagrams from letters in crowded (cddeorw).

Definitions for crowded

noun

1. a large number of persons gathered closely together; throng:
2. any large number of persons.
3. any group or set of persons with something in common:
4. audience; attendance:
5. the common people; the masses:
6. a large number of things gathered or considered together.
7. Sociology. a temporary gathering of people responding to common stimuli and engaged in any of various forms of collective behavior.

Idioms

1. crowd on sail, Nautical. to carry a press of sail.

adjective

1. filled to excess; packed.
2. filled with a crowd:
3. uncomfortably close together:

verb (used with object)

1. to press closely together; force into a confined space; cram:
2. to push; shove.
3. to fill to excess; fill by pressing or thronging into.
4. to place under pressure or stress by constant solicitation:

verb (used without object)

1. to gather in large numbers; throng; swarm.
2. to press forward; advance by pushing.

Origin of crowded

First recorded in 1605-15; crowd¹ + -ed²

Examples for crowded

The afternoon is far advanced—the parks and public drives are crowded.

On Wednesday, two young female suicide bombers detonated in a crowded market in Kano State.

But when this mound was built there were towns here, busy and crowded.

It only needed a beginning, and the penitent bench would be crowded.

After the boats were crowded, they would hold on to them so that they could not leave the shore.

When it became too crowded, they moved her into an open casket on the street.

Then the commercial weight loss behemoths Weight Watchers and Jenny Craig joined this crowded field.

“People feel that these crowded areas play to their advantage—it provides this sense of a cover,” he said.

Persons of every class are crowded together, here, in one dense mass.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Half a dozen men sit on the floor in a grimy rented storefront in the crowded Khyber Bazaar.