🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

aglomeración

Pronunciation / Transliteration: a-glo-me-ɾa-ˈsjon

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Crowding/ˈkraʊ.dɪŋ/
nounverbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"La aglomeración en el metro durante las horas punta es agobiante."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The state of a space being filled with too many people or things, resulting in a lack of personal space.

    "Urban crowding can lead to significant psychological stress for residents."
  2. 2

    In biology and ecology, the situation where an increased population density negatively affects individual growth or survival.

    "Laboratory studies observed resource competition resulting from larval crowding."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Old English verb 'crūdan', meaning to press, push, or crowd, originating from Proto-Germanic roots. Over centuries, the term evolved to describe both the physical action of pushing together and the state of being closely packed in a restricted space.

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