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THRONG

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large gathering of people

Synonyms:

concourse; multitude; throng

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("throng" is a kind of...):

assemblage; gathering (a group of persons together in one place)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "throng"):

hive (a teeming multitude)

horde; host; legion (a vast multitude)

herd; ruck (a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things)

Derivation:

throng (press tightly together or cram)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Press tightly together or cram

Example:

The crowd packed the auditorium

Synonyms:

jam; mob; pack; pile; throng

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "throng" is one way to...):

crowd; crowd together (to gather together in large numbers)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Sentence examples:

The crowds throng in the streets

The streets throng with crowds

Derivation:

throng (a large gathering of people)

Credits

 Context examples: 

So thick was the throng that it was no easy matter to get out of the George.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Nay, not so fast,” said a huge archer, whose mighty shoulders and red head towered high above the throng of his comrades.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The known and the unknown were commingled in the dream-pageant that thronged his vision.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The openings of these huts and the branches of the trees were thronged with a dense mob of ape-people, whom from their size I took to be the females and infants of the tribe.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the clear embers I was tracing a view, not unlike a picture I remembered to have seen of the castle of Heidelberg, on the Rhine, when Mrs. Fairfax came in, breaking up by her entrance the fiery mosaic I had been piercing together, and scattering too some heavy unwelcome thoughts that were beginning to throng on my solitude.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Amid the stream of Corinthians and fighting-men who were thronging into the room I had caught a glimpse of the sturdy figure and broad, good-humoured face of Champion Harrison.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The throng of pirates had cleared away from the great wooden catapult, leaving two of their number to discharge it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These visions came out of the actions and sensations of the past, out of things and events and books of yesterday and last week—a countless host of apparitions that, waking or sleeping, forever thronged his mind.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

As he emerged from the throng he let his great-coat fly loose, and showed that he was dressed in his full fighting kit—black drawers, chocolate stockings, and white shoes.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From side to side stretched the thin line of the English, lightly armed and quick-footed, while against it stormed and raged the pressing throng of fiery Spaniards and of gallant Bretons.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)