Synonyms

A Busy Street Scene Crowds of pedestrians, shoppers and others can be seen walking along the pavements outside the shops or trying to cross the road. The noise of cars and taxis hooting, or of scooters, flying past is deafening.

bustling – a crowded, busy place. Words and phrases with similar meanings: lively, fast-paced, hectic. Example sentence: New York is a busy, bustling city. One of its nicknames is “The City That Never Sleeps”.

Explanation: The wet, desolate streets of the city rested in silence as the starry black sky wept over it. The water in the portholes shimmered by the glow of the bright, yellow street lamps. The small, green trees on the roadside swayed as the strong breeze hit them.

When describing your favorite place in an essay, use vivid language to describe the details like the weather of the place, the main place that you visited, the kind of feeling you had. Besides, you should also describe why you like the place. The memorable events should be presented in proper order.

• madhouse. noun. a place that is very noisy, busy, and full of confused activity.
• a hive of activity. phrase. a place where everyone is very busy.
• the centre of activity/things. phrase. the main area where something is happening.
• lively. adjective.
• hectic. adjective.
• bustling. adjective.
• buzz. verb.
• hum. verb.

Some common synonyms of crowd are crush, horde, mob, and throng. While all these words mean “an assembled multitude,” crowd implies a close gathering and pressing together.

Describe place through characters’ senses. Include time period in description. Show how characters feel about your setting. Keep setting description relevant to the story.

The night sky was aglow with bright city lights. The pale crescent moon shone like a silvery claw in the night sky. We looked up at the blanket of stars that stretched to infinity. The occasional barking of faraway dogs broke the silence of the night.

How to describe a place:

• Describe place through characters’ senses.
• Include time period in description.
• Include small-scale changes in time.
• Show how characters feel about your setting.
• Keep setting description relevant to the story.
• List adjectives to describe your story locations.

A list of useful words for describing cities, towns and countries.

• ancient – a place that has a long history.
• beautiful – very pleasing on the eye.
• boring – dull and not very interesting.
• bustling – a crowded, busy place.
• charming – nice, very pleasing.
• contemporary – modern, very up to date.

A very large and busy city. metropolis. conurbation. megalopolis.

Introduction In urban areas, a busy street is frequented by humans, land vehicles, and animals all day long. Busy streets are usually observed in the center of the community where it shelters the most members of the population. The reason behind is that streets are usually the center of trade for most of the owners of an enterprise or institution.

City Road is a busy street in Cardiff. It has a variety of businesses and residents, creating dynamics which change according to the time of day. Many of the businesses are shops, such as Xquisite Africa which caters to the ethnic residents who have felt in the past that their needs were not met.

A busy street needs human participation because the street can transform into a thriving part of the community when it allows people to pass through the way. However, there are undesirable issues that are observed along the streets.

TMA01 Sociology City Road PG1 Drawing on what you have learned about City Road, outline some of the inequalities on a street that you know. The streets of our cities often tell us more about our society than we expect, they show how people and objects interact with each other in order to make a community.