Throng
[θrɒŋ] or [θrɔŋ]
Definition
(verb.) press tightly together or cram; 'The crowd packed the auditorium'.
Checked by Brady--From WordNet
Definition
(imp.) of Thring
(n.) A multitude of persons or of living beings pressing or pressed into a close body or assemblage; a crowd.
(n.) A great multitude; as, the heavenly throng.
(v. i.) To crowd together; to press together into a close body, as a multitude of persons; to gather or move in multitudes.
(v. t.) To crowd, or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings.
(v. t.) To crowd into; to fill closely by crowding or pressing into, as a hall or a street.
(a.) Thronged; crowded; also, much occupied; busy.
Edited by Everett
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Crowd, multitude, horde, press, host.
v. n. Crowd, press.
Editor: Rosalie
Definition
n. a large number of people pressed or crowded together: a crowd: a great multitude.—v.t. to press or crowd: to annoy with numbers.—v.i. to crowd together: to come in multitudes.—adj. (prov.) crowded: busy.—adj. Throng′ful thronged.
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Examples
- Through the deep throng it could pass but slowly; the spirited horses fretted in their curbed ardour. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The curtain drew up--shrivelled to the ceiling: the bright lights, the long room, the gay throng, burst upon us. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Discipline prevailed: in five minutes the confused throng was resolved into order, and comparative silence quelled the Babel clamour of tongues. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Then, amid cheers of encouragement from the immense throng that was watching, he turned sharply past the starting-tower and flew between the flags that marked the starting-line. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- And their long-departed owners seemed to throng the gloomy cells and corridors with their phantom shapes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The giddy throng passed and repassed before my eyes. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Sometimes we went up to London, and entered into the amusements of the busy throng; sometimes our retreat was invaded by visitors from among them. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The streets were thronged with working people. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Here, under the quiet stars, these old streets seem thronged with the phantoms of forgotten ages. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Fifty would-be partners thronged round her at once, and pressed to have the honour to dance with her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- This cabinet dazzled me, it was so full of light: it deafened me, it was clamorous with voices: it stifled me, it was so hot, choking, thronged. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- His eyes remained unseeingly fixed on the thronged sunlit square below the window. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- No youthful congregation of gallant-hearted boys thronged the portal of the college; sad silence pervaded the busy school-room and noisy playground. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Numbers of the men she knew already, and the dandies thronged round her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Tom had been standing wistfully examining the multitude of faces thronging around him, for one whom he would wish to call master. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Sharp, decisive speeches came thronging into her mind, now that it was too late to utter them. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Her pallet and easel were now thrown aside; did she try to paint, thronging recollections made her hand tremble, her eyes fill with tears. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It was very strange to see thronging multitudes assembled in an artificial light again. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Many a night and many a day had its inmates listened to the echoes in the corner, with hearts that failed them when they heard the thronging feet. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- With such schooling did my poor Idris try to hush thronging fears, and in some measure succeeded. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Warm from illuminations, and music, and thronging thousands, thoroughly lashed up by a new scourge, I defied spectra. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Such masses, such throngs, such multitudes of hurrying, bustling, struggling humanity! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Edited by Benson