Throng
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English
Noun
Throng (plural Throngs)- A group of people crowded or gathered closely together; a multitude.
- A group of things; a host or swarm.
Verb
Throng (third-person singular simple present Throngs, present participle Thronging, simple past and past participle Thronged)
- (transitive) To crowd into a place, especially to fill it.
- (intransitive) To congregate.
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Adverbs for Throng
tumultuously; ceaselessly; demoniacally ; countlessly; innumerably; seethingly, hungrily; expectantly; multitudinously; incongruously; bestially; moilingly .
Adjectives for Throng
trampling; demoniac; well-dressed; countless (pi); burdened; motley; shadowy; grateful; tumultuous; ragged; threadbare; accusing; ill-bred; billowy; worshipping; sinless; unreposing; innumerable (pi); riotous; fearful; eager; thoughtless; seething; lean; exultant; hungry; starving; ghostly ;angelic; excited; expectant; blood-washed; terror-stricken; beauteous; bewinged; adoring; laughing; chattering; moveless; trembling; crushed-down; spectral; listening; sceptered; invisible; festal; armed; emotional; spending; foolish; shining.
Thesaurus
a mass of, a world of, abound with, army, assemblage, assemble, assembly, be alive with, bevy, bristle with, bunch, bunch up, burst with, clot, cloud, cluster, clutter, cohue, collect, collection, come together, congregate, congregation, converge, copulate, couple, covey, crawl with, creep with, crowd, crush, date, deluge, drove, fill, flight, flock, flock to, flock together, flocks, flood, flow together, forgather, fuse, galaxy, gang around, gang up, gather, gather around, gather in, gathering, group, hail, heap, herd, herd together, hive, horde, host, huddle, jam, large amount, league, legion, link, lots, many, mass, masses of, meet, merge, mill, mob, muchness, multiply, multitude, muster, nest, numbers, overflow with, pack, panoply, plurality, press, pullulate with, push, quantities, quite a few, rabble, rally, rally around, rendezvous, rout, ruck, scores, seethe, shoal, spate, squash, stream, surge, swarm, swarm with, teem with, throng with, tidy sum, unite, worlds of
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Etymology
From Middle English, from Old English þrang, ġeþrang (“crowd, press, tumult”), from Proto-Germanic *þrangwan, *þrangwō (“throng”), *þrangwaz (“push, drive”), from Proto-Indo-European *trenk(w)- (“to beat, hew, press”). Cognate with Dutch drang (“crowd, urge, push, impulse”), German Drang (“urge, drive, impulse”), Danish trang (“urge”), Norwegian trong (“need”), Icelandic þröng (“narrow, tightly pressed, crowd, throng”). More at thring.
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Quotations
- 1885 — Gilbert & Sullivan, The Mikado
- Perhaps you suppose this throng
- Can't keep it up all day long?
