What does crowded mean?
Word: Crowded
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Crowded means having so many people or things in one place that there is very little room to move.
Synonyms: full, busy, congested
Antonyms: empty
How do you spell crowded?
Syllables: crowd - ed
Tricky part: The vowel sound in the first syllable is the one you hear in cow, and it is spelt ow. Pupils who think of loud or cloud write ou instead and end up with crouded.
Watch out for: crouded, crowdid
Memory tip: Picture a crowd of cows squeezed into a lane: the ow of cow is the ow you need here.
Crowded in a sentence
Example 1: The bus to the city centre was so crowded that Omar had to stand all the way.
Example 2: Our crowded little kitchen smells of cardamom whenever Grandma makes tea.
Example 3: The seafront gets crowded on Sunday evenings when families come out for ice cream.
Fun Fact
Crowd comes from an Old English verb that meant to press or push, which suits a crowded lift where everyone is squeezed together.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Connection
Choose the antonym of the word:
crowded
a) deserted
b) bustling
c) packed
d) jammed
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a) deserted. A deserted market has nobody in it, while the other three all describe a place full of people.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
wdoredc
a) clouded
b) crowned
c) crowed
d) crowded
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d) crowded. The jumble has seven letters with two d's and no n, l or u, which leaves only one word.
Word Cookie
Find the extra letter in the word:
crowdded
a) o
b) w
c) e
d) d
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d) d. Take out one d and you are left with crowd plus its ed ending.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) delicous
b) noticable
c) comfortible
d) crowded
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d) crowded. Comfortable ends in able, delicious keeps an i before ous, and noticeable holds on to the e of notice.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which of these would most likely leave a railway platform crowded?
a) a holiday rush of travellers
b) a new clock above the gate
c) a station shut for repairs
d) fresh paint on the benches
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a) a holiday rush of travellers
2. Meena could not find a seat because the hall was crowded. What does this tell us about the hall?
a) it had just been cleaned
b) it was locked for the day
c) its lights were switched off
d) it was packed with people
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d) it was packed with people
