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throng

  [thrawng, throng]
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–noun
1. a multitude of people crowded or assembled together; crowd.
2. a great number of things crowded or considered together: a throng of memories.
3. Chiefly Scot. pressure, as of work.
–verb (used without object)
4. to assemble, collect, or go in large numbers; crowd.
–verb (used with object)
5. to crowd or press upon; jostle.
6. to fill or occupy with or as with a crowd: He thronged the picture with stars.
7. to bring or drive together into or as into a crowd, heap, or collection.
8. to fill by crowding or pressing into: They thronged the small room.
–adjective Scot. and North England.
9. filled with people or objects; crowded.
10. (of time) filled with things to do; busy.
Origin:
bef. 1000; (n.) ME; OE gethrang; c. D drang, G Drang pressure, ON thrǫng throng; (adj. and v.) ME; akin to the n.; cf. obs. thring to press

Synonyms:
1. horde, host; assemblage. See crowd 1 .
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throng   (thrông, thrŏng)   
n.  
  1. A large group of people gathered or crowded closely together; a multitude. See Synonyms at crowd1.
  2. A large group of things; a host.
v.   thronged, throng·ing, throngs

v.   tr.
  1. To crowd into; fill: commuters thronging the subway platform.
  2. To press in on.
v.   intr.
To gather, press, or move in a throng.

[Middle English, from Old English gethrang.]
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Throng

Throng\, n. [OE. [thorn]rong, [thorn]rang, AS. ge[thorn]rang, fr. [thorn]ringan to crowd, to press; akin to OS. thringan, D. & G. dringen, OHG. dringan, Icel. [thorn]ryngva, [thorn]r["o]ngva, Goth. [thorn]riehan, D. & G. drang a throng, press, Icel. [thorn]r["o]ng a throng, Lith. trenkti to jolt, tranksmas a tumult. Cf. Thring.]

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

2. A great multitude; as, the heavenly throng.

Syn: Throng, Multitude, Crowd.

Usage: 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. --Daniel.

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown, The lowest of your throng. --Milton.

I come from empty noise, and tasteless pomp, From crowds that hide a monarch from himself. --Johnson.

Throng

Throng\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Thronged; p. pr. & vb. n. 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. --Shak.

Throng

Throng\, v. t. 1. To crowd, or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings.

Much people followed him, and thronged him. --Mark v. 24.

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

Throng

Throng\, a. Thronged; crowded; also, much occupied; busy. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Bp. Sanderson.

To the intent the sick . . . should not lie too throng. --Robynson (More's Utopia).
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Language Translation for : throng
Spanish: multitud,
German: die Menge,
Japanese: 群衆
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throng  (n.)
c.1300, probably shortened from O.E. geþrang "crowd, tumult" (related to verb þringan "to push, crowd, press"), from P.Gmc. *thrangan (cf. O.N. þröng, Du. drang, Ger. Drang "crowd, throng"). The verb, in the sense of "go in a crowd," is first recorded 1534.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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