crowdedadj.
/ˈkraʊdᵻd/, U.S. /ˈkraʊdəd/ 1.
a. Filled with or thronged by a crowd.
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the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [adjective] > full > crowded
thickc893
replete?a1475
frequentc1540
throng1557
thicky1587
thronged1605
celebrious1611
crowded1612
stiff1683
swarming1810
multitudinous1820
throngful1830
dense1842
swarmy1858
teeminga1873
swarmed1885
mobbed1898
1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xvii. 259 His crouded Wharfes, and people-pestred shores.
1637 J. Bastwick Letany i. 5 They cry out in open Courts and the Crowdedst assemblies.
1727 J. Thomson Summer 13 And from the crowded Fold, in Order, drives His Flock.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 4 Sixteen hundred substantial burghers well armed..kept order in the crowded streets.
b. figurative. Full of events or experience of life.
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the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [adjective] > eventful
eventfula1616
great-bellied1647
crowded1791
venturous1813
eventive1843
chanceful1849
fateful1886
incidented1898
1791 T. O. Mordaunt in Bee 12 Oct. 179 One crouded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
1957 F. King Widow iii. iii. 317 The busy and crowded years in India.
1971 Times 21 Jan. 10/4 He [sc. Compton Mackenzie] records a crowded old age in which flow of writing is as non-stop as social life.
2. Gathered, pressed, or clustered closely together.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [adjective] > crowded together
thickc893
throngc1450
frequented1578
thwackeda1670
crowded1725
serried1834
1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey III. x. 106 Our eager sailors..bound within the port their crowded fleet.
1823 W. Scoresby Jrnl. Voy. Northern Whale-fishery 240 We doubled the western point among very crowded ice.
1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 July 11/1 There was a crowded audience each night.
Derivatives
ˈcrowdedly adv.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [adverb] > crowded together
a-throngc1300
straita1450
crowdedly1846
1846 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Zoophytes 131 Exterior crowdedly papillose.
ˈcrowdedness n.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [noun] > crowded condition or crowding
press?c1225
thronga1400
frequence1535
thrust1565
frequency1570
throngness1691
squeeze1802
crush1806
crowdedness1823
condensation1828
density1851
the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [noun] > fullness > crowdedness
crowdingc1384
thickness1398
crowdedness1823
1823 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 13 698 The pettiness and crowdedness of its ruins.
1895 W. Schlich Man. Forestry III. 181 As long as the degree of crowdedness is not too great.
1920 M. Webb House in Dormer Forest i. vi. 65 The phrase pleased him because of its crowdedness.
1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (N.Y. ed.) 57 I long to see its [sc. the world's] chock-full crowdedness.
1930 O. Lodge in Aberdeen Press & Jrnl. 9 Sept. 6/2 The great crowdedness of space.
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