n. 1
A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back, but also a load for an animal, a bale.
The horses carried the packs across the plain.
n. 2
A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack
v. 1
To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport. To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack
to pack goods in a box; to pack fish
v. 2
To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport. To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into.
to pack a trunk; the play, or the audience, packs the theater

Related words

Word family: packless packman packraft packsack packer
Phrases: fanny pack pack rat back pack ice pack pack mentality pack off expansion pack halal snack pack
Other spellings: pac US pak

Forms

Plural: packs → gangs, crews, sets, bunches…
Past participle: packed
e.g. packed → bundled, packaged, packeted, compressed…

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

3 letters: set¹, lot¹, box¹, jam¹, mob¹, wad¹
4 letters: take¹, band¹, ring¹, camp¹, crew¹, load¹, gang¹, deck¹, pile¹, bale¹, stow¹, cram¹, bevy², tamp¹
5 letters: press¹, stuff¹, carry², squad¹, crowd¹, bunch¹, stack¹, flock¹, truss¹
6 letters: number², budget², burden², bundle², packet², parcel², kennel², clique¹, throng¹
7 letters: company³, package², compact², coterie³
8 letters: quantity³, compress², condense²
9 letters: battalion³, multitude³, plurality⁴
10 letters: collection³

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (bevy² = 2 syllables).