packed

packed

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pækt/

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• Rhymes: -ækt
• Homophone: pact

Verb

packed

1. simple past tense and past participle of pack

Adjective

packed (comparative more packed, superlative most packed)

1. Put into a package.

   packed lunch

2. Filled with a large number or large quantity of something.

   packed with goodness

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071:

     […] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.

   • 2020 June 3, Lilian Greenwood talks to Paul Stephen, “Rail's 'underlying challenges' remain”, in Rail, page 33:

     A packed schedule of 13 different inquiries ranged from parking on pavements to filling potholes, plus a hard-hitting examination of the Government's proposed Airports National Policy Statement and its recommendation to grant approval for a third runway to be built at Heathrow.

3. (colloquial) Filled to capacity with people.

   The bus was packed and I couldn't get on.

   • 2018 June 17, Barney Ronay, “Mexico’s Hirving Lozano stuns world champions Germany for brilliant win”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎, London: Guardian News & Media, ISSN 0261-3077, OCLC 229952407, archived from the original on 5 August 2019:

     On a steamy summer late afternoon the Luzhniki was once again packed. It is a vast space, with a roof that almost closes in on itself capturing the air like a superheated bubble.

   • 2019 October, Chris Stokes, “Between the Lines”, in Modern Railways, page 97:

     We picked up returning Millwall supporters at New Street, together with a couple of British Transport Police officers, and the train, an 11-car set, was now packed.

Synonyms

• (filled to capacity with people): crowded, rammed; see also Thesaurus:compact

Translations

put into a package

Catalan: empaquetat French: empaqueté (fr) Italian: impacchettato (it) Portuguese: empacotado m Spanish: empaquetado (es)

filled with a large number or large quantity

Armenian: լի (hy) (li) Catalan: replet French: archiplein (fr) Galician: ateigado m, acugulado Kabuverdianu: totxadu Latin: condensus, frequens Portuguese: repleto (pt), abarrotado (pt) Russian: забитый (ru) m (zabityj), заполненный (ru) m (zapolnennyj) Spanish: repleto (es)

filled to capacity

Catalan: replet Czech: nacpaný French: bondé (fr) m Galician: repleto m Greek: φίσκα (el) (físka) Indonesian: penuh (id) Latin: refertus Portuguese: lotado (pt) m Spanish: colmado (es), repleto (es), atestado (es)

• Italian: al completo

Related terms

• packed like sardines
• packed lunch

Anagrams

• depack