CROWDED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crowded mean? 

• CROWDED (adjective)
  The adjective CROWDED has 1 sense:

1. overfilled or compacted or concentrated

  Familiarity information: CROWDED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CROWDED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Overfilled or compacted or concentrated

Context example:

a young mother's crowded days

Similar:

huddled (crowded or massed together)

jam-packed; jammed; packed (extremely crowed or filled to capacity)

thronged (filled with great numbers crowded together)

Antonym:

uncrowded (having or allowing sufficient room)

 Context examples 

This was sufficient to fling the whole pack forward, pell-mell, crowded together, blocked and confused by its eagerness to pull down the prey.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

In fact, the current record holder tips the scale at 21 billion suns and resides in the crowded Coma galaxy cluster that consists of over 1,000 galaxies.

(Behemoth Black Hole Found in an Unlikely Place, NASA)

A benign form of endometrial hyperplasia with crowded endometrial glands and little stroma between the glands.

(Complex Endometrial Hyperplasia, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The infection is common in crowded living conditions with poor sanitation.

(Helicobacter pylori, NCI Thesaurus)

With more people traveling to other countries and living in crowded cities, it's easier for germs to spread.

(International Health, NIH)

A condition in which a tooth is so crowded in its socket that it cannot erupt normally.

(Impaction, NCI Thesaurus)

The sharpness of the Hubble images allowed the research team to separate the background source star and the lensing star from their neighbors in the very crowded star field.

(Hubble Finds Planet Orbiting Pair of Stars, NASA)

The winged offspring can then fly to and colonize new, less crowded plants.

(Virus genes help determine if pea aphids get wings, National Science Foundation)

I have a dim recollection of a group of officials who crowded round me, endeavouring to soothe me.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You are starting 2020 filled with energy and enthusiasm, and with five heavenly bodies crowded into your sixth house ruling work projects, it’s easy to see you’ll hit the ground running.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)