"bustling" meaning in English

See bustling in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈbʌs(ə)lɪŋ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-bustling.wav Forms: more bustling [comparative], most bustling [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} bustling (comparative more bustling, superlative most bustling)
  1. Busy; full of energy and noisy activity. Synonyms: lively, seething Derived forms: bustlingly, unbustling Translations (full of noisy activity): rušný (Czech), uspěchaný (Czech), touhukas (Finnish), animé (French), trépidant (French), שׁוֹקֵק (shoqéq) [masculine] (Hebrew), vivace (Italian), toritori (Māori), animat (Occitan), vivent (Occitan), قیزغین (kızgın) (Ottoman Turkish), ajetreado (Spanish), trajinante (Spanish)
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Noun

IPA: /ˈbʌs(ə)lɪŋ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-bustling.wav Forms: bustlings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} bustling (plural bustlings)
  1. A bustle; a busy stir.
    Sense id: en-bustling-en-noun-gUcrLP5~

Verb

IPA: /ˈbʌs(ə)lɪŋ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-bustling.wav
Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} bustling
  1. present participle and gerund of bustle Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: bustle
    Sense id: en-bustling-en-verb-U1eKRTB5

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          "sense": "full of noisy activity",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-02-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-02-01 using wiktextract (f492ef9 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.