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noun

Throng n.

A multitude of persons or of living beings pressing or pressed into a close body or assemblage; a crowd.

A great multitude; as, the heavenly throng.

Synonyms: Throng, Multitude, Crowd. Any great number of persons form a multitude; a throng is a large number of persons who are gathered or are moving together in a collective body; a crowd is composed of a large or small number of persons who press together so as to bring their bodies into immediate or inconvenient contact. A dispersed multitude; the throngs in the streets of a city; the crowd at a fair or a street fight. But these distinctions are not carefully observed. "So, with this bold opposer rushes on This many-headed monster, multitude." "Not to know me argues yourselves unknown, The lowest of your throng." "I come from empty noise, and tasteless pomp, From crowds that hide a monarch from himself."

verb

Thring v. t. & v. i. (past throng) To press, crowd, or throng. (Obs.)

Throng v. t.

To crowd, or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings. "Much people followed him, and thronged him."

To crowd into; to fill closely by crowding or pressing into, as a hall or a street.

Throng v. i. (past & past part. thronged; pres. part. thronging) To crowd together; to press together into a close body, as a multitude of persons; to gather or move in multitudes. "I have seen the dumb men throng to see him."

adjective

Throng adj. Thronged; crowded; also, much occupied; busy. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.) "To the intent the sick... should not lie too throng."

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Etymology of 'Throng'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Throng" Quotes from Famous Books

... were floating about on the muddy water, and some pairs in quiet corners played chess and even cards. But there was a constant circulation among the throng. Introductions were effected in form, save that no one shook hands, at least above the water; only the detached heads bowed ceremoniously. It was a new canto of the Inferno—the condemned playing dully at human society ...

— Bog-Myrtle and Peat - Tales Chiefly Of Galloway Gathered From The Years 1889 To 1895 • S.R. Crockett

... tried. He was in what Wych Hazel might have called a very Spanish mood. Not to her; indeed he never approached her nor sought to interrupt the pretensions of those who crowded round her, courting her favour and worshipping her pleasure, and craving to be made ministers of the same. She was in a throng, and he did not try to penetrate it. Why he stayed so long was a mystery; for what is a German if you do not dance? He was not a mere idle spectator, nor idle at all, it is true; he made himself busy enough, taking elderly ladies to supper and serving younger ones with beef- tea; ...

— Wych Hazel • Susan and Anna Warner

... here and there an immense tree to break the monotony. These rich bottomlands that seemed capable of producing anything in unlimited quantities were almost entirely uncultivated. At several stations there bulked above the throng white men in appearance like a cross between farmers and missionaries, the older ones heavily bearded. For a time I could not catalogue them. Then, as we pulled out of one town, two of what but for their color and size I should ...

— Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras - Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond • Harry A. Franck

... recognized the ethereal guest; Wonder and joy alternate fire his breast; Heroic thoughts, infused, his heart dilate; Revolving much his father's doubtful fate. At length, composed, he join'd the suitor-throng; Hush'd in attention to the warbled song. His tender theme the charming lyrist chose. Minerva's anger, and the dreadful woes Which voyaging from Troy the victors bore, While storms vindictive intercept the store. The shrilling airs ...

— The Odyssey of Homer • Homer, translated by Alexander Pope

... "Mondnacht" and the "Etude in C sharp minor" would be heard all the time, and free of charge, all the bishops and the big preachers and little evangelists and exhorters and ministers would be besieged by a grand eager throng of people, crying with one accord, "What must I do to be sanctified?" Lord, hasten ...

— The Heart-Cry of Jesus • Byron J. Rees

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