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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
crowded
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
crowded (=with a lot of people)
▪ The streets get very crowded at weekends.
crowded
▪ In the summer the beaches get very crowded.
overcrowded/crowded conditions
▪ Families here are living in dirty, overcrowded conditions.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bar
▪ Ranging around the crowded bar, his eyes settled on a group by the window.
▪ Pushing temptation aside, he left the casino and walked into the crowded bar next door.
▪ Led by the head waiter around a crowded bar we emerged into a restaurant with a breathtaking interior.
▪ It was bizarre, surrealistic, a little enclave of cancer patients in a noisy, crowded bar.
▪ Michael and Terry were sitting in a crowded bar.
city
▪ It snakes in and out of ports, along our busiest highways and through our most crowded cities.
▪ It is really a very crowded city.
▪ It was hot in London in July, not a good time to go sightseeing around a crowded city.
▪ I had a sandwich in a crowded City pub, and then went to the bank to collect Miss Macdonald's letter.
room
▪ Less homely than the crowded room at Dinard, it smelt rich.
▪ Harry looked round the crowded room.
▪ Perhaps it had just been the rather stuffy air in that crowded room.
▪ Marion searched for him in the crowded room, and found him at last, talking to Sue's dad near the window.
▪ As the shirt-sleeved waiter preceded them across the crowded room, Polly was startled when people began calling out to Nathan.
▪ Some one who manages to read in a noisy, crowded room may inadvertently communicate evidence as to his enviable powers of concentration.
▪ Boden was not among his listeners, nor anywhere in the three small, crowded rooms.
▪ For the years we were taking speed, we wouldn't go into a pub or a crowded room.
street
▪ Something which she, brought up in a crowded street, could not fail to recognize.
▪ Earlier eight people died when bombs rained on the city's crowded streets.
▪ His disguise would pass in a crowded street, but not at six inches' range.
▪ From their position in the hills, the forces lobbed three mortar bombs into the crowded streets.
▪ We left the Legation as the sun rose and our cars were constantly brought to a standstill in the crowded streets.
▪ Crime, and even sedition, festered in the crowded streets.
▪ Visiting Stanley village, we walked along a crowded street of shops and many street traders.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
close/packed/crowded etc together
▪ The Beastline were standing close together, silhouetted against the sky.
▪ The main street in Lincoln is narrow, and the little houses are close together.
▪ These horses show relaxed, peaceful outlines, with friends standing particularly close together.
▪ They stood close together in silence, listening.
▪ Though they are close together on the couch, there is in fact a chasm between them.
▪ We draw close together to complete our plans.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a crowded elevator
▪ It was two weeks before Christmas and the mall was crowded with shoppers.
▪ The train was really crowded.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Behind the taxis is a crowded railway station and beyond that, the port.
▪ But judging by the crowded platform, nobody seems to mind.
▪ He was given an ancient, unreliable car and in this he made long journeys and addressed crowded meetings.
▪ Lafaille's climbs give vivid illustration that adventure can still be found, even in the world's most crowded massif.
▪ My parents and Joan were on the crowded pavement near an ice-cream cart and a streamer seller.
▪ The steamer swings lowing through crowded waterways.
▪ When the population is put in the context of land size, Britain emerges clearly as a crowded island.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
crowded

crowded \crowded\ adj.

  1. overfilled or compacted or concentrated; filled to excess; as, a crowded program. Opposite of uncrowded.

    Note: [Narrower terms: full, jammed, jam-packed, packed]

  2. filled with a crowd; as, a crowded marketplace.

  3. having an uncomfortable density of people; filled to excess with people; as, crowded trains; a crowded theater.

Wiktionary
crowded

  1. Containing too many of something; teeming. v

  2. (en-past of: crowd)

WordNet
crowded

adj. overfilled or compacted or concentrated; "a crowded theater"; "a crowded program"; "crowded trains"; "a young mother's crowded days" [ant: uncrowded]

Wikipedia
Crowded

"Crowded" is a 2006 R&B song released as the first official single from Jeannie Ortega's debut album, No Place Like BKLYN. The song was also featured on the soundtrack to the film Stick It. The song also features underground rapper Papoose. The song charted on the Hot 100 and did well on Pop 100 Airplay.

Crowded (TV series)

Crowded is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from March 15 to May 22, 2016. The series was created by Suzanne Martin, executive produced by Martin, Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner, through their Hazy Mills Productions, and is produced in association with Universal Television. Like their other series Hot in Cleveland, this multi-camera sitcom is recorded in front of a live studio audience. The series was greenlit to order by NBC on May 7, 2015. The show debuted as a mid-season entry in the 2015–16 television season, with a 13-episode order. On May 13, 2016, NBC cancelled the series.

Usage examples of "crowded".

The artillery attempted to unlimber and to bring their guns to bear again, but the confusion that prevailed in the crowded spot rendered this next to impossible, and long before it could be accomplished the iron hail again swept through the ranks, and two rattling volleys from their invisible foes behind the flanking abattis again flashed out.

Susanna Adams flew into a rage over the fact that Deacon John, in answer to his own conscience and feelings of responsibility as selectman, had brought a destitute young woman to live in the crowded household, the town having no means to provide for her.

The Adams household was more crowded now than it had ever been and would remain so.

Then came the challenging letters from Henry Akeley which impressed me so profoundly, and which took me for the first and last time to that fascinating realm of crowded green precipices and muttering forest streams.

Bound to be, with the place so crowded and not all of the guests acquainted.

Megan, Jaime, Amparo, and Felix made their way down the crowded aisle to their reserved seats.

Megan, Jaime, Amparo and Felix made their way down the crowded I aisle to their reserved seats.

But where else would we adjuncts receive such a spiritual lift than from these eager young- and- often- older learners, who are there every day or night to absorb as much as they can in spite of missed meals, four- hours- anight sleep, crowded subway trains and the unkindest cut of all-- the charge that they are responsible for a deteriorating quality of education.

The eyes of an Arita dragon peered at her from a center dish in a nearby display, while crowded between oil jars and ivory candle lamps, snuff and Cizhou bottles, wineglasses, vases, and silver spoons, stood the imperious form of Zhenwu, the Daoist God of the North.

Then he left, in a good deal of astrachan collar and nickel-plated limousine, and the place felt less crowded.

Then they crowded forward for a closer examination of the talismanic mark, staring at it with expressions of awe and wonder.

Cat was giving in Auckland - but to Jody it repre-sented a chance to see the man again, if only from the depths of a crowded theater.

Today it was crowded with domestic automata, all the same model char-engine.

Several blocks past the landscaped magnificence of the Thai Intercontinental Hotel and the sprawl of a four-story shopping mall, the limo turned right and began making its way along the colorful turbulence of one of the dirty, crowded klongs, or canals, which had given Bangkok its reputation as the Venice of the Orient.

More and more ambitious players crowded into the cage, until there were so many that batted balls rarely missed hitting some one.