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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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"Throng" Quotes from Famous Books

... connect themselves with the subject. Plowden himself was delicately-tinted and refined of texture. Vindictiveness was too plain and coarse an emotion to sway such a complicated and polished organism. He reasoned it out, as he stood with lack-lustre gaze before the plate-glass front, aloof among a throng of eager and talkative women who pressed around him—that Plowden would not have spent his money on a mere impulse of mischief-making. He would be counting upon something more tangible than revenge—something that could be counted and weighed and ...

— The Market-Place • Harold Frederic

... city, and presented to its inhabitants, a most beautiful and magnificent scene. About two o'clock the General landed at the battery, where he was received by a salute from the troops, and the hearty and reiterated cheers of the immense throng which had assembled to welcome him ...

— Memoirs of General Lafayette • Lafayette

... out now to me, Robin, if you can." The Squire became humorously doubtful, and his amusement grew upon him as Robin vainly searched with his bright eyes about the throng. "No Will o' th' Green is here, child; he would be a fish out of water, indeed, in Nottingham town. Dearly would I love ...

— Robin Hood • Paul Creswick

... of the shaft stood a great crowd when the inanimate boys were brought out. During the nights as well as days this throng remained waiting to see those known to be in the half-ruined mine. These anxious watchers, sympathizing with the three grief-stricken mothers, had left their posts only so long as was absolutely necessary, and had seen each lifeless body ...

— Down the Slope • James Otis

... one can easily ride fast, even if inclined to do so, through the press and throng of the City at that hour, and as Mr Carker was not inclined, he went leisurely along, picking his way among the carts and carriages, avoiding whenever he could the wetter and more dirty places in the over-watered road, and taking infinite ...

— Dombey and Son • Charles Dickens

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