throng
Americannoun
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a multitude of people crowded or assembled together; crowd.
- Synonyms:
- assemblage, host, horde
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a great number of things crowded or considered together.
a throng of memories.
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Chiefly Scot. pressure, as of work.
verb (used without object)
verb (used with object)
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to crowd or press upon; jostle.
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to fill or occupy with or as with a crowd.
He thronged the picture with stars.
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to bring or drive together into or as into a crowd, heap, or collection.
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to fill by crowding or pressing into.
They thronged the small room.
adjective
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filled with people or objects; crowded.
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(of time) filled with things to do; busy.
noun
verb
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to gather in or fill (a place) in large numbers; crowd
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(tr) to hem in (a person); jostle
adjective
Related Words
See crowd 1.
Other Word Forms
- interthronging adjective
- overthrong verb
- unthronged adjective
Etymology
Origin of throng
before 1000; (noun) Middle English; Old English gethrang; cognate with Dutch drang, German Drang pressure, Old Norse thrǫng throng; (adj. and v.) Middle English; akin to the noun; compare obsolete thring to press
Example Sentences
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The complex, called Avant Gardner, began to host some of the world’s most famous electronic musicians, and throngs of New Yorkers came to revel in the atmosphere.
Now it is thronged with tourists, lured by the transformation of El Salvador from one of the region's deadliest countries to one of its safest.
From Barron's
The throng of reporters camped out around Tucson is beginning to thin.
From Los Angeles Times
As midnight nears with the party in full swing, the waitress joins the throng on the dancefloor, swept up by the tunes -- until a power cut brings the music to a halt.
From Barron's
Family patriarch Joseph Guinnip joined the throngs of people who headed west to take hold of America’s Manifest Destiny, leaving Steuben County, N.Y., in the 1830s.
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