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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CROWDED, pp. Collected and pressed; pressed together; urged; driven; filled by a promiscuous multitude.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Crowd Crowd (kroud), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crowded; p. pr. & vb. n. Crowding.] [OE. crouden, cruden, AS. cr?dan; cf. D. kruijen to push in a wheelbarrow.] 1. To push, to press, to shove. --Chaucer. 2. To press or drive together; to mass together. ``Crowd us and crush us.'' --Shak. 3. To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity. The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign. --Prescott. 4. To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably. [Colloq.] To crowd out, to press out; specifically, to prevent the publication of; as, the press of other matter crowded out the article. To crowd sail (Naut.), to carry an extraordinary amount of sail, with a view to accelerate the speed of a vessel; to carry a press of sail.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If a place is crowded, it is full of people. He peered slowly around the small crowded room... ADJ: oft ADJ with n 2. If a place is crowded, a lot of people live there. ...a crowded city of 2 million... ADJ 3. 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. = packed ADJ: oft ADJ with n

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