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throng
CIDE DICTIONARY
throng, n. [OE. , , AS. ge, fr. to crowd, to press; akin to OS. thringan, D. & G. dringen, OHG. dringan, Icel. , , Goth. , D. & G. drang a throng, press, Icel. a throng, Lith. trenkti to jolt, tranksmas a tumult. Cf. Thring.].
- A multitude of persons or of living beings pressing or pressed into a close body or assemblage; a crowd. [1913 Webster]
- A great multitude; as, the heavenly throng. [1913 Webster]"So, with this bold opposer rushes on
This many-headed monster, multitude." [1913 Webster]"Not to know me argues yourselves unknown,
The lowest of your throng." [1913 Webster]"I come from empty noise, and tasteless pomp,
From crowds that hide a monarch from himself." [1913 Webster]
throng, v. i.
To crowd together; to press together into a close body, as a multitude of persons; to gather or move in multitudes. [1913 Webster]
"I have seen the dumb men throng to see him." [1913 Webster]
throng, v. t.
- To crowd, or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings. [1913 Webster]"Much people followed him, and thronged him." [1913 Webster]
- To crowd into; to fill closely by crowding or pressing into, as a hall or a street. Shak. [1913 Webster]
throng, a.
Thronged; crowded; also, much occupied; busy. Bp. Sanderson. [1913 Webster]
"To the intent the sick . . . should not lie too throng." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
throng, n. & v.
--n.
1 a crowd of people.
2 (often foll. by of) a multitude, esp. in a small space.
--v.
1 intr. come in great numbers (crowds thronged to the stadium).
2 tr. flock into or crowd round; fill with or as with a crowd (crowds thronged the streets).
--n.
1 a crowd of people.
2 (often foll. by of) a multitude, esp. in a small space.
--v.
1 intr. come in great numbers (crowds thronged to the stadium).
2 tr. flock into or crowd round; fill with or as with a crowd (crowds thronged the streets).
Etymology
ME thrang, throng, OE gethrang, f. verbal stem thring- thrang-
THESAURUS
throng
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throng
Assemblage
N assemblage, collection, collocation, colligation, compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement, team, concourse, conflux, congregation, contesseration, convergence, meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home, conversazione, assembly, congress, convention, conventicle, gemote, conclave, posse, posse comitatus, Noah's ark, miscellany, collectanea, museum, menagerie, museology, crowd, throng, group, flood, rush, deluge, rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe, crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party, swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove, atajo, bunch, drive, force, mulada, remuda, roundup, array, bevy, galaxy, corps, company, troop, troupe, task force, army, regiment, host, populousness, clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association, volley, shower, storm, cloud, group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil, set, batch, lot, pack, budget, assortment, bunch, parcel, packet, package, bundle, fascine, fasces, bale, seron, seroon, fagot, wisp, truss, tuft, shock, rick, fardel, stack, sheaf, haycock, fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock, stook, accumulation, congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid, bing, drift, snowball, snowdrift, acervation, cumulation, glomeration, agglomeration, conglobation, conglomeration, conglomerate, coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta, quantity, collector, gatherer, whip, whipper in, assembled, closely packed, dense, serried, crowded to suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous, as thick as hops, all of a heap, fasciculated cumulative, the plot thickens, acervatim, tibi seris tibi metis.VB assemble, collect, muster, meet, unite, join, rejoin, cluster, flock, swarm, surge, stream, herd, crowd, throng, associate, congregate, conglomerate, concentrate, precipitate, center round, rendezvous, resort, come together, flock get together, pig together, forgather, huddle, reassemble, assemble, muster, bring together, get together, put together, draw together, scrape together, lump together, collect, collocate, colligate, get, whip in, gather, hold a meeting, convene, convoke, convocate, rake up, dredge, heap, mass, pile, pack, put up, truss, cram, acervate, agglomerate, aggregate, compile, group, aggroup, concentrate, unite, collect into a focus, bring into a focus, amass, accumulate, collect in a dragnet, heap Ossa upon Pelion.
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