Synonyms: packed, full, busy, mobbed More Synonyms of crowded
2. adjective
If a place is crowded, a lot of people live there.
...a crowded city of 2 million.
The best housing they could afford was crowded and filthy.
3. adjective
If your timetable, your life, or your mind is crowded, it is full of events, activities, or thoughts.
Never before has a summit had such a crowded agenda.
...a long life crowded with incident.
She slept fitfully, her mind crowded with confusing dreams.
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Examples of 'crowded' in a sentence
crowded
The source said the most likely target would have been a crowded city centre shopping area.
The Sun (2008)
Entering not an empty cabin but a crowded place full of strangers.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
We smiled at each other across the crowded room.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
We met in a crowded and very noisy room at a buffet lunch.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
And space is increasingly precious in what is an increasingly crowded city.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
It was quite a crowded delivery room!
The Sun (2006)
His friend nodded towards the crowded and noisy terrace of the café.
Fitch, Noel Riley Hemingway in Paris - Parisian walks for the literary traveller (1989)
As a result you may struggle to find room on crowded trains.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The risks of pursuing young, inexperienced drivers through crowded city streets are obvious.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Today the pain of losing his entire noisy, crowded family is still agonisingly raw.
The Sun (2013)
They can have meals there so they don't have to go into the crowded and noisy canteen.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
I spotted him across a crowded room.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
I fought across a crowded room to shake his enormous right hand.
The Sun (2016)
Roads were full and crowded.
Christianity Today (2000)
I sometimes feel panicky in crowded, noisy places.
The Sun (2014)
At the eye hospital I was shoved on a stretcher in the crowded emergency room surrounded by hostile soldiers.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
She said the way motorists treat cyclists is'like wielding a loaded gun in a crowded room '.
The Sun (2009)
Fearing that the man could blow up the bus in the crowded city centre, police persuaded him to transfer with the hostages to a smaller vehicle.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Construction took time, lots sat empty for long periods, and conditions in the crowded old city remained a nuisance.
Arthur Herman THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World (2002)
In another hundred years people will look back at a world that was less crowded, full of natural wonders, and healthier.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The only way of increasing office space in town centres is to build upwards, and it's the same story on crowded city streets.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Am I supposed to grit my teeth, walk round crowded shops full of sheep and queue for hours to buy some rubbish?
The Sun (2011)
In other languages
crowded
British English: crowded /ˈkraʊdɪd/ ADJECTIVE
A crowded place is full of people or things.
The old town square was crowded with people.
American English: crowded
Arabic: مُزْدَحِم
Brazilian Portuguese: lotado
Chinese: 拥挤的
Croatian: pretrpan
Czech: přeplněný
Danish: propfuld
Dutch: samengepakt
European Spanish: atestado
Finnish: täynnä oleva
French: bondé
German: überfüllt
Greek: συνωστισμένος
Italian: affollato
Japanese: 込み合った
Korean: 붐비는
Norwegian: fullpakket
Polish: zatłoczony
European Portuguese: lotado
Romanian: aglomerat
Russian: переполненный
Latin American Spanish: atestado
Swedish: trång
Thai: ซึ่งเต็มไปด้วยฝูงชน
Turkish: kalabalık
Ukrainian: переповнений
Vietnamese: đông đúc
All related terms of 'crowded'
crowd
A crowd is a large group of people who have gathered together, for example to watch or listen to something interesting , or to protest about something.
crowded out
full to capacity ; full to bursting
crowded train
A train is a number of carriages , cars, or trucks which are all connected together and which are pulled by an engine along a railway . Trains carry people and goods from one place to another.
crowd in
If problems or thoughts crowd in on you, a lot of them happen to you or affect you at the same time, so that they occupy all your attention and make you feel unable to escape .
crowd out
If one thing crowds out another, it is so successful or common that the other thing does not have the opportunity to be successful or exist.