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Definition of Packed
1. Adjective. Filled to capacity. "A packed theater"
2. Adjective. Pressed together or compressed. "Packed snow"
Definition of Packed
1. Verb. (past of pack) ¹
2. Adjective. Put into a package. ¹
3. Adjective. Filled with a large number or large quantity of something. ¹
4. Adjective. (colloquial) Filled to capacity with people. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Packed
1. pack [v] - See also: pack
Lexicographical Neighbors of Packed
Literary usage of Packed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"The flowers must be packed dry, and if the outdoor flowers must be picked wet,
... The bunches are packed in shallow boxes with one, or at most two, ..."
2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"London Chandler states that the car In question was packed and braced to go anywhere
... He stated that "It was packed properly so far as he could see, ..."
3. Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1910)
"Yearly comparison for 9 yrs. of no. of hogs packed In west. ... No. of hogs packed
at San Francisco and at Interior places; total for Oregon, each yr. ..."
4. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1890)
"The lady's half of the hut was floored with packed red clay. The furniture
consisted of a few jars, a rude bed, like an Indian charpoy, and a low stool. ..."
5. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"packed together, as heavy clouds before rain. 1 thought there'd be a storm the
clouds looked FO facky. ..."
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