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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A large group of people gathered or crowded closely together; a multitude. See Synonyms at crowd1.
  2. n. A large group of things; a host.
  3. v. To crowd into; fill: commuters thronging the subway platform.
  4. v. To press in on.
  5. v. To gather, press, or move in a throng.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A crowd or great concourse of people; a multitude, great in proportion to the space it occupies or can occupy.
  2. n. A great number: as, the heavenly throng.
  3. n. A busy period, great press of business, or the time when business is most active: as, the throng of the harvest; he called just in the throng.
  4. n. Synonyms Crowd, etc. See multitude.
  5. To come (or go) in multitudes; press eagerly in crowds; crowd.
  6. To crowd or press; press unduly upon, as a crowd or multitude of people anxious to view something.
  7. To crowd into; fill as or as with a crowd.
  8. To fill or stuff.
  9. Thickly crowded or set close together; thronged; crowded.
  10. Much occupied or engaged; busy.
  11. Preterit of thring.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A group of people crowded or gathered closely together; a multitude.
  2. n. A group of things; a host or swarm.
  3. v. To crowd into a place, especially to fill it.
  4. v. To congregate.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A multitude of persons or of living beings pressing or pressed into a close body or assemblage; a crowd.
  2. n. A great multitude.
  3. v. To crowd together; to press together into a close body, as a multitude of persons; to gather or move in multitudes.
  4. v. To crowd, or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings.
  5. v. To crowd into; to fill closely by crowding or pressing into, as a hall or a street.
  6. adj. Thronged; crowded; also, much occupied; busy.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. press tightly together or cram
  2. n. a large gathering of people

Etymologies

  1. Middle English, from Old English gethrang.

Examples

  • “Iffesheim was pure pleasure, like every other item of Baden existence, and all aristocratic, sparkling, rich, amusement-seeking Europe seemed gathered there under the sunny skies, and on everyone's lips in the titled throng was but one name -- Forest King's.”

    Under Two Flags

  • “As it happened, Sen. Joe Lieberman was also at the airport, surrounded by a throng from the national press corps.”

    The Wall Street Journal: A Roaring Literary Lion

  • “Among the figures in the throng was a young man named Robert Vaughn, who would go on to become a well-known actor in films and television.”

    Simon & Schuster: Empire of Dreams

  • “Joining the throng are the Budget Rent a Car unit of the Cendant Corporation ….”

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  • “Her throng was the air, and her wings were the multitude of flying movements in her brain.”

    Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets

  • “Lafayette on his white horse and a host of people of the slums, but this time in the midst of the throng was a great lumbering coach, in which rode Louis and his wife and children, for Paris now insisted that the court should no longer possess the freedom of Versailles in which to plot unwatched against the rights of the French people.”

    A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.

  • “Among the throng was a strong contingent of young men from Liskeard, a town three miles distant, between whom and the youth of Menheniot an ancient feud existed.”

    The Life of George Borrow

  • “As the hour for the arrival of the stage approached, the crowd massed in front of the hotel, filling the lobby, the arcade and the street, and still scattered through the throng were the men from the”

    The Winning of Barbara Worth

  • “Near the outer edge of the throng was a red-lipped Juno, superbly rounded, who had gleaned in the fields until she was all a Gipsy brown, and her movements of a Gipsy grace in their freeness.”

    The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West

  • “Outside the throng was a carriage, stopp'd for a minute by this tumult, and a servant at the horses 'heads.”

    The Splendid Spur

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  • bilby Underwear, post-wedgie. Sep 30, 2008

‘throng’ has been looked up 2135 times, loved by 8 people, added to 69 lists, commented on 1 time, and has a Scrabble score of 10.