throng
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[edit] Etymology
From Middle English, from Old English þrang, ġeþrang (“crowd, press, tumult”), from Proto-Germanic *þrangwan, *þrangwō (“throng”), *þrangwaz (“push, drive”), from Proto-Indo-European *trenk(w)- (“to beat, hew, press”). Cognate with Dutch drang (“crowd, urge, push, impulse”), German Drang (“urge, drive, impulse”), Danish trang (“urge”), Norwegian trong (“need”), Icelandic þröng (“narrow, tightly pressed, crowd, throng”). More at thring.
[edit] Noun
throng (plural throngs)
- A group of people crowded or gathered closely together; a multitude.
- A group of things; a host or swarm.
[edit] Translations
group of people
group of things; host or swarm
[edit] Quotations
- 1885 — Gilbert & Sullivan, The Mikado
- Perhaps you suppose this throng
- Can't keep it up all day long?
[edit] Verb
throng (third-person singular simple present throngs, present participle thronging, simple past and past participle thronged)
- (transitive) To crowd into a place, especially to fill it.
- (intransitive) To congregate.
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[edit] Translations
to crowd into a place, especially to fill it
to congregate
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