TEEMING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does teeming mean? 

• TEEMING (adjective)
  The adjective TEEMING has 1 sense:

1. abundantly filled with especially living things

  Familiarity information: TEEMING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TEEMING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Abundantly filled with especially living things

Context example:

the teeming boulevard

Similar:

abundant (present in great quantity)

Derivation:

teemingness (the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply)

 Context examples 

If it should be, and he came to London, with his teeming millions....

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

In 2011, astronomers announced that our galaxy is likely teeming with free-floating planets.

(Lone Planetary-Mass Object Found in Family of Stars, NASA)

Labour, I believe, is sometimes difficult to obtain in that portion of our colonial possessions where it will be our lot to combat with the teeming soil.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Compressing her lips, in sympathy with the snap, Miss Murdstone opened it—opening her mouth a little at the same time—and produced my last letter to Dora, teeming with expressions of devoted affection.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Lucy lies in the tomb of her kin, a lordly death-house in a lonely churchyard, away from teeming London; where the air is fresh, and the sun rises over Hampstead Hill, and where wild flowers grow of their own accord.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“I am extremely happy to hear it. Although a mind like my friend Copperfield's'—to Uriah and Mrs. Heep—“does not require that cultivation which, without his knowledge of men and things, it would require, still it is a rich soil teeming with latent vegetation—in short,” said Mr. Micawber, smiling, in another burst of confidence, “it is an intellect capable of getting up the classics to any extent.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This was the being I was helping to transfer to London, where, perhaps, for centuries to come he might, amongst its teeming millions, satiate his lust for blood, and create a new and ever-widening circle of semi-demons to batten on the helpless.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)