crowded

[krou-did]

adjective

1. filled to excess; packed.

2. filled with a crowd.

   crowded streets.

3. uncomfortably close together.

   crowded passengers on a bus.

Other Word Forms

• crowdedly adverb
• overcrowded adjective
• overcrowdedly adverb
• overcrowdedness noun
• uncrowded adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of crowded¹

First recorded in 1605–15; crowd ¹ + -ed ²

Example Sentences

Even during the most crowded hours, I go straight to the head of the queue.

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And yet for all the acreage, the icons at the screen’s perimeter are crowded and hard to read.

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What’s Next: Walt Disney has a solution for people who are worried about crowded airports and roads: cruises.

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For now, he said, families are crowded into a block of 20 buildings with one-room student dormitories roughly six miles away from the camp.

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A simple analogy is people packed into a crowded elevator: the moment the door opens, they hurry to escape.

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