Crossword clues for throng
throng
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thring \Thring\, v. t. & i. [imp. Throng.] [AS. [thorn]ringan.
See Throng.]
To press, crowd, or throng. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
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.]
A multitude of persons or of living beings pressing or pressed into a close body or assemblage; a crowd.
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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.
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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. 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).
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, probably shortened from Old English geþrang "crowd, tumult" (related to verb þringan "to push, crowd, press"), from Proto-Germanic *thrangan (cognates: Old Norse þröng, Dutch drang, German Drang "crowd, throng").
"go in a crowd," 1530s, from throng (n.). Earlier it meant "to press, crush" (c.1400). Related: Thronged; thronging.
Wiktionary
(context Scotland Northern England dialect English) Filled with persons or objects; crowded. n. A group of people crowded or gathered closely together; a multitude. v
(label en transitive) To crowd into a place, especially to fill it.
WordNet
Usage examples of "throng".
They were a throng, literally, of arrivistes, all looking to change their lives.
Niall, his dark eyes betraying a hint of apprehension from beneath his thick silver hair, struck his staff on the bridge several times in an effort to silence the increasingly unruly throng, but the clamor continued unabated.
But there were other, braver men in the throng, and rocks and filth pelted the soldiery.
The flesh was weary, the spirit faint, and I was getting out of humor with the bustling busy throng through which I had to struggle, when in a fit of desperation I tore my way through the crowd, plunged into a by-lane, and, after passing through several obscure nooks and angles, emerged into a quaint and quiet court with a grassplot in the centre overhung by elms, and kept perpetually fresh and green by a fountain with its sparkling jet of water.
The nearest school stood half an hour distant in 1315 Alpha, while Town--the large market center of Mulling Crucis, with its throng of 6,000 restlessly jostling people--lay some two hours distant by omnibus.
Camila, her head seamlessly edited to the body of a bandy-legged horsewoman, propped her cutlass on the shoulder of her yak-hide coat and looked at the gathering throng with nervous amusement.
While Macro steered a way through the throng to the bar, Cato looked round and saw that the only place left was a rickety trestle table flanked by two benches, right by the door they had just entered.
Like the huipil blouse and skirt worn by the india and half-caste women, hundreds of male figures in the rough cotton shirt, pants, and woven maguey mantas would throng the plaza.
Roman men were pouring thick from the wood out of all array, followed by a close throng of the kindreds: for on this side the Romans were outnumbered and had stumbled unawares into the ambush of the Markmen, who had fallen on them straightway and disarrayed them from the first.
The thronging constellations rush in crowds, Paving with fire the sky and the marmoreal floods.
The stately decor of the basilica was briefly marred by the entrance of pilgrim throngs.
We went to the place where the throng was greatest, round the two great matsuri cars, whose colossal erections we had seen far off.
Only at the gate of the Mellah, which, contrary to custom, had not yet been closed, was the throng still dense.
The throng roared out in enthusiastic approval, but Mongo only arched his brow, cupping his hand to his ear.
These colors, falling upon the throng of monomachists and loungers much as we see the aureate beams of divine favor fall on hierarchs in art, lent them an appearance insubstantial and thaumaturgic, as though they had all been produced a moment before by the flourish of a cloth and would vanish into the air again at a whistle.