Throng

Definitions: Throng

Throng

Noun

1. A large gathering of people.

Verb

1. Press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium".

Date "throng" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Throng

Synonyms: concourse (n), multitude (n), jam (v), mob (v), pack (v), pile (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Assemblage	Verb: assemble, collect, muster; meet, unite, join, rejoin; cluster, flock, swarm, surge, stream, herd, crowd, throng, associate; congregate, conglomerate, concentrate; precipitate; center round, rendezvous, resort; come together, flock get together, pig together; forgather; huddle; reassemble.
	Crowd, throng, group; flood, rush, deluge; rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe; crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party; swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove; atajo; bunch, drive, force, mulada; remuda; roundup; array, bevy, galaxy; corps, company, troop, troupe, task force; army, regiment; (combatants); host; (multitude); populousness.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Throng

English words defined with "throng": Inthrong ♦ Lurry ♦ Prees ♦ quiet ♦ Rabble-rout ♦ The multitude, Thrave, Thring, Thronging. (references)

Specialty definitions using "throng": DUEL ♦ Lictors. (references)

Etymologies containing "throng": Inthrong ♦ Prees ♦ Thring. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Throng" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Manx (busy, harassed, hard-pressed, tied up, tied up busy).

Domain	Title
Books	Passing Throng (reference) (more book examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	North past the principal street, Bagdad, where the Jews and Moslems throng.Credit: Library of Congress.		President Coolidge officiates at dedication of Liberty War Memorial on Armistice Day before throng of 175,000.Credit: Library of Congress.
	President Harding, addressing throng, Pilgrim Tercentenary, Plymouth, Mass., Aug. 1, 1921.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Author	Quotation
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
John Keats	Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous -- who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?
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Title	Author	Quote
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded	Carroll, Lewis	Yes, He has seen me in the throng.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	He passed through the throng with slow steps.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	He felt his body small and weak amid the throng of players and his eyes were weak and watery.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to the reconciliation of two enemies. Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance; if awkwardly performed the most unexpected and deplorable consequences sometimes ensue. A long time ago a man lost his life in a duel. That dueling's a gentlemanly vice I hold; and wish that it had been my lot To live my life out in some favored spot -- Some country where it is considered nice To split a rival like a fish, or slice A husband like a spud, or with a shot Bring down a debtor doubled in a knot And ready to be put upon the ice. Some miscreants there are, whom I do long To shoot, to stab, or some such way reclaim The scurvy rogues to better lives and manners, I seem to see them now -- a mighty throng. It looks as if to challenge me they came, Jauntily marching with brass bands and banners! Xamba Q. Dar
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Franklin Pierce	1853-1857	Its obligations throng the unexplored pathway of advancement, and will be limitless as duration.
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"Throng" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.88% of the time. "Throng" is used about 234 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	91.88%	215	20,643
Lexical Verb (base form)	4.27%	10	111,207
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	3.85%	9	117,287
Total	100.00%	234	N/A

Expression using "throng": throng around. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "throng"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		turmë (bevy, concourse, confluence, crew, crowd, drove, flock, herd, horde, huddle, jam, mob, press, rabble, rat race, rout, ruck), mizëri (legion, multitude, swarm), grumbullohem (aggregate, amalgamate, be amassed, be gathered, be mustered, build up, crowd, crowd round, crowd together, mob, overcrowd, pile up, unite), gëlon (abound, come in multitude, crawl, flow, swarm, teem), dyndem (invade, pile, pile into, press). (various references)

Arabic		‏حشد (assemblage, assemble, boodle, cloud, college, concentrate, concourse, confluence, crew, crowd, gather, gathering, horde, host, huddle, legion, loads of, lots of, mob, mobilize, multitude, oodles, pack, pile up, press, rabble, recall, regiment), ‏تجمهر (assemble, congregate, crowding, grouping, mill, mob, swarm), ‏تدفق (affluence, afflux, bubble, discharge, drift, flow, flowing, fluency, flux, gush, inflow, influx, inrush, issue, jet, onrush, outbreak, outflow, outpouring, pour, roll, shoot, shoot up, slop, spirt, spout, spurt, stream, surge), ‏زحمة (obstruction, press, scramble, squash, squeeze), ‏جمهور (assembly, audience, crowd, gathering, great number, host, public), ‏إحتشد (be gathered, congregate, crowd, flock, huddle, jostle, muster, swarm, teem, troop), ‏إزدحم (overcrowd, press), ‏إزدحام (congestion, crowding, overcrowding). (various references)

Bulgarian		стичам се (congregate, flow, flow in, overflow, pour, pour in, seep), тълпя се (collect, crowd, crowd together, flock, herd, horde together, mob, swarm, troop, whirl), тълпа (cloud, concourse, cram, crowd, crush, drove, herd, host, huddle, mob, multitude, press, rabble, resort, rout, ruck, shoal, squash, train, troop), трупам се (conglomerate, crowd round, flock, flood, mass, mob, troop), навалица (crowd, jam, melee, rout), множество (host, legion, loads of, many, mass, multiplicity, multitude, plurality, regiment, scores, set, swarm, troop, variety, wilderness), блъсканица (cram, crowd, melee, press, squash), пълня (bowl up, fill, load, prime, refill, stop, stuff), претъпквам (overcrowd), притискам (constrict, embosom, jam, pin, pin down, pinch, press, press down, screw, snuggle, squeeze, strain, strangulate, weight down). (various references)

Czech		tlaèit (hurt, jostle, pack, pinch, press, push, thrust, trundle, wheel), tlaèenice (crowd, crush, hustle, jam, jamming, overcrowding, squash, squeeze), tísnit se, zástup (crowd, file, mob, multitude), maèkat se (crease, crowd), maèkanice (tight squeeze), houf (band, bevy, bunch, drove, gaggle, herd, horde, shoal, troop), dav (concourse, crowd, horde, mob, populace, rabble, swarm), cpát se (guzzle, stuff, stuff oneself). (various references)

Farsi		هجوم (Influx, Inroad, Invasion, Offense, Onset), گروه (A, Administration, Army, Assembly, Bunch, Class, Clinch, Clique, Cluster, Cohort, Company, Concourse, Corps, Covey, Crowd, Ensign, Flock, Gang, Group, Kind, Outfit, Pack, Rout, School, Seaboard, Shoal, Skulk, Team), جمعیت (Army, Bike, Company, Crowd, Flock, Gang, Group, Habitancy, Heap, Herd, Mob, Party, People, Population, Press, Society), ازدحام کردن (Crowd, Flock, Huddle, Mob, Overcrowd, Press, Scrouge, Swarm), ازدحام (Crowd, Drove, Host, Huddle, Hurtle, Press, Rabble, Swarm, Turnout). (various references)

Finnish		tungos (congestion, crowd, crush), tungeksia (crowd, mill around). (various references)

French		se presser, multitude, grouiller, foule, cohue, affluer. (various references)

German		gedränge (bunching, congestion, crowd, crush, hustle, jam, jostle, jostling, melee, press, rush, scrimmage, scrum, scrummage, squash, squeeze). (various references)

Greek		συνωθώ (push against), συνοστίζομαι (crowd, swarm up), συνοθούμαι, πλήθοσ (a lot of, army, battalion, bevy, crowd, heaps, host, huddle, large number of, lots, multitude, plenty of, ruck, shoal, swarm, troop), λαόσ (commonalty, people). (various references)

Hebrew		להתקהל (congregate, crowd, gather, mass, mob, swarm, troop), קהל (assembly, community, crowd, gathering, public), המון (a great deal, a great many, a world of, crowd, herd, hoi polloi, legion, loads of, many, mass, mob, multitude, oodle, plenty, swarm). (various references)

Hungarian		tömeg (accumulation, body, bulk, cloud, clump, concourse, concrete, confluence, conglomerate, crowd, crush, drove, gross, heap, hoi polloi, host, mass, mob, multiplicity, multitude, pack, pile, quantity, quantum, regiment, shoal, swarm), csődület (concourse, crowd, hurly-burly, press, rout, tumult). (various references)

Indonesian		kerumunan (mob), bondongan, berkerumun (assemble, cluster around, come together, crowd, swarm over, teem). (various references)

Italian		ressa (crowd, press, rush, squash, squeeze), moltitudine (crowd, herd, host, mass, multitude, shoal, slew, slue, swarm), ingombrare (choke, clutter, cumber, encumber, stuff), folla (accumulation, crowd, crush, drove, heap, host, huddle, mass, mob, multitude, pile, rabble), calca (congestion, crowd, crush, huddle, jam, mob, rabble, squash, squeeze), affollarsi (crowd, flock, huddle, pile, swarm), affollare (crowd, overcrowd), affluire (crowd, flow, rush). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		雑踏 (congestion, hustle and bustle, traffic jam). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ざっとう (congestion, hustle and bustle, traffic jam), ぐんしゅう (crowd, group, mob, multitude), ひとだかり (crowd), うんしゅう (swarm), いしゅう (collection of writings by the deceased, different religion or sect, flock together, offensive smell, off-flavor, old customs, swarm). (various references)

Manx		jingey (cram, crowd, crowd up, crowding, crush, embed, jam, let in, move along, press, press forward, quoin, ram home, shove, shove forward, shoving, thronging, wedge; indentation, wedging). (various references)

Pig Latin		ongthray

Portuguese		tropel, multidão (accumulation, cloud, cluster, concourse, confluence, coven, crew, crowd, flock, heap, herd, hive, horde, legion, many, mass, multitude, parade, people, pile, popular, rabble, ruck, shoal, swarm), banda (band, bank shore, border, coast beach, crowd, edge, gang, ribbon, sash, scarf, side), ajuntamento (gathering), aglomeração de gente, afluência (abundance, affluence, afflux, confluence, conflux, flush, indraft, indraught, inflowing, influx, onflow). (various references)

Romanian		umple de lume, se îmbulzi (beat a path, crowd, mob, overcrowd, pack, press), mulţime (accumulation, army, array, body, boodle, cloud, cluster, concourse, crowd, dozen, drove, fifty, flock, forest, generality, heap, herd, hive, host, huddle, lashing, manifold, mass, mob, multitude, muster, number, Peck, pile, plenty, populace, press, quantity, rabble, ream, shoal, sight, squash, stack, swarm), masã (avoirdupois, block, board, body, bulk, clump, congeries, cooking, crop, crowd, cuisine, dinner, dusty treat, feast, gross, lump, mass, meal, meat, multitude, people, repast, shoal, table, tuck in), grãmadã (aheap, assemblage, batch, block, bulk, clamp, clump, cluster, cob, collection, congeries, crowd, drift, flock, heap, host, hulk, load, lump, mass, mountain, multitude, ocean, pack, Peck, pile, power, shoal, snag, stack, ton, wilderness of), comunitate (commune, community, congregation, intercommunity, membership), aglomeraţie (agglomeration, concourse, cram, crowd, crush), aglomera (accumulate, agglomerate, aggregate, conglomerate, crowd, gather, jam, overcrowd), afluenţã (affluence, concourse, confluence, influx, resort, rush), învãlmãşealã (bustle, confusion, crowd, hubbub, scrimmage, scuffle, scurry, squash, stampede, stir, struggle, turmoil), îngrãmãdi (accumulate, acerbate, aggregate, assemble, clump, cram, crowd, drift, garner, gather, heap, huddle, jam, lumber, lump, pack, pile, pile up, put in a heap, squeeze), îmbulzi, îmbulzealã (cram, crush, hustle, rush, scrimmage). (various references)

Russian		толпа (bike, boodle, crowd, drove, mob, posse, rabble, swarm, troop), толпиться (crowd, herd, mob, overcrowd, squash), множество (a great deal, a great many, a lot of, a world of, abundance, array, bags of, cloud, crowd, dozens, ensemble, great number, heap, legion, manifold, mass, mountain, multiples, multiplicity, multitude, ocean, oodles, orgy, pack, pile, plurality, set, stacks of, the many, the million, thousand), повалиться. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vreva (crush, tumult), navala (assault, attack, influx, inrush, offense, run, rush), gurati se (mill, scrounge), gomila (accumulation, agglomerate, aggregate, batch, concourse, congeries, crowd, flock, heap, huddle, mob, pile, pileup, plump, stack, swarm). (various references)

Spanish		tropel (herd, troop), venir en tropel, venir en masa, multitud (army, crowd, drove, herd, horde, host, mob, multitude, shoal, swarm), muchedumbre (crowd, horde, host, mass, mob, press, swarm), llenar de bote en bote, gentío (crowd, mob), atestar (attest, clutter, cram, overcrowd, pack, testify), amontonarse (accumulate, bank up, gather, heap up, huddle, pile, pile up). (various references)

Swedish		trängsel (crowding, crush, jam, jostle, press, scramble, squash, squeeze), trängas (crowd, hustle, jostle one another, push, scramble, squash). (various references)

Turkish		toplanmak (accumulate, agglomerate, assemble, band together, build, bunch, club, club together, cluster, collect, combine, congregate, convene, crowd, drift, flock, forgather, gather, get together, group, herd, horde, keep together, meet, meet in council, mob, muster, rally, reunite, roll up, shoal, sit, sit on, swarm, swarm to a place, troop, troop together, troop up, turn out), kalabalık (army, assemblage, cohort, concourse, congested, congestion, cram, crop, crowd, crowded, crush, drove, flock, gaggle, gathering, hive, horde, host, huddle, legion, mob, multitude, multitudinous, populous, press, regiment, rush hour, shoal, spate, squash, thronged, wilderness), izdiham (concourse, confluence, conflux, congestion, cram, crowd, jam, mob, multitude, press, squeeze, stampede), doluluk (full, fullness, fulness, repletion), doldurmak (charge, choke up, clog, complete, congest, cover in, crowd, fill, glut, infest, infuse, line, load, point up, ram, replenish, store, stuff, top up, write out), üşüşmek (crowd, flock, pour, press on, swarm, swarm to a place), çokluk (affluence, ampleness, amplitude, commonness, considerable, crowd, fullness, fulness, heaviness, host, lashings, muchness, multeity, multiplicity, multitude, plenitude, plentifulness, plenty, plethora, plurality, superfluity, vastness). (various references)

Turkmen		ьяюmeleс (crowd, mob). (various references)

Ukranian		юрмитися (overcrowd, swarm), скупчуватися (accumulate, agglomerate, amass, collect, congest, conglomerate, crowd, flock, huddle), штовханина (commotion, cram, crush, hustle, jostle, jumble, squash), купа (accumulation, bale, barrel, batch, clamp, cluster, congeries, cumulus, deal, heap, huddle, lump, pile, stack, swarm), гніт (candle-wick, oppression, pressure), натовп (bike, confluence, conflux, crowd, drove, flock, huddle, mob, multitude, press, rabble), заповнений (alive). (various references)

Vietnamese		đám đông (army, shoal). (various references)

Welsh		heidio (flock, swarm), dyludo (flock). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	affluam, affluant, affluatis, affluens, affluent, affluentes, afflues, affluet, affluit, frequenta, frequentate, frequenter, frequentes, turma. (various references)
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Language	Date	Source	Mark Chapter 3, Verse 9
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Kai eipen toiV maqhtaiV autou ina ploiarion proskarterh autw dia ton oclon ina mh qlibwsin auton
Latin	405	Vulgate	Et dixit discipulis suis ut navicula sibi deserviret propter turbam ne conprimerent eum
Old English	990	West Saxon	& he cwæð to his cnihten þt hyo hym onscype þenedon for þare manigeo þæt hyohine ne of-þrungen.
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And Jhesus seide to hise disciplis, that the boot schulde serue hym, for the puple, lest thei thristen hym;
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	And he comaunded his disciples yt a shippe shuld wayte on him because of the people leste they shuld througe him.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And he spake to his disciples, that a small ship should wait on him because of the multitude, lest they should throng him.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And he spoke to his disciples, that a small boat should wait on him, because of the multitude, lest they should throng him.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And he made a request to his disciples to have a little boat ready for him, so that he might not be crushed by the people;
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Language	Mark Chapter 3, Verse 9
Bulgarian	И поръча на учениците Си да Му услужат с една ладия, поради народа, за да Го не притискат.
Cebuano	Ug gisugo niya ang iyang mga tinun-an sa pag-andam ug sakayan alang kaniya tungod sa panon, aron dili siya mapiit niini;
Croatian	Stoga reèe uèenicima neka mu se zbog mnoštva pripravi laðica da ga ne bi zgnjeli.
Danish	Og han sagde til sine Disciple, at en Båd skulde være til Rede til ham for Skarens Skyld, for at de ikke skulde trænge ham.
Dutch	En Hij zeide tot Zijn discipelen, dat een scheepje steeds omtrent Hem blijven zou, om der schare wil, opdat zij Hem niet zouden verdringen.
Finnish	Ja hän sanoi opetuslapsillensa, että hänelle oli pidettävä venhe varalla väentungoksen tähden, etteivät he ahdistaisi häntä;
French	Il chargea ses disciples de tenir toujours à sa disposition une petite barque, afin de ne pas être pressé par la foule.
Gaelic	Agus thuirt e ri dheisciopuil, bata beag a bhith ga fhreasdal as leth an sluaigh, eagal gun domhlaicheadh iad e.
German	Und er sprach zu seinen Jüngern, daß sie ihm ein Schifflein bereit hielten um des Volkes willen, daß sie ihn nicht drängten.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Orang-orang itu begitu banyak, sehingga Yesus menyuruh pengikut-pengikut-Ny menyediakan perahu untuk-Nya, sebab jangan-jangan Ia nanti terdesak oleh orang-orang itu.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Maka disuruh-Nya murid-murid-Nya selalu menyediakan sebuah perahu kecil bagi-Nya, supaya jangan orang menyesak Dia.
Maori	Na ka mea ia ki ana akonga kia noho tata mai tetahi kaipuke iti ki a ia, i te mano hoki, kei tutetutea ia e ratou.
Norwegian	Og han bød sine disipler at en båt skulde ligge ferdig til ham for folkets skyld, forat de ikke skulde trenge ham;
Portuguese	Recomendou, pois, a seus discípulos que se lhe preparasse um barquinho, por causa da multidão, para que não o apertasse;
Rumanian	Isus a poruncit ucenicilor sq -I yinq la kndemknq o corqbioarq, ca sq nu fie kmbulzit de norod.
Shuar	Untsurí Káunkar chanuntawarain tusa Jesus ni unuiniamurin kanuram Inianáastarum tusa seamiayi.
Spanish	Y Jesús dijo a sus discípulos que siempre tuviesen lista una barca a causa del gentío, para que no lo apretujaran;
Swahili	Yesu akawaambia wanafunzi wake wamtayarishie mashua moja, ili umati wa watu usije ukamsonga.
Swedish	Och han tillsade sina lärjungar att en båt skulle hållas tillreds åt honom, för folkets skull, för att de icke skulle tränga sig inpå honom.
Uma
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "throng": thronged, thronging, throngs. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Throng" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Nhuong, theon, theron, thongh, thoron, thrant, thren, thrig, throbn, throg, thromg, thronge, throug, thrvng, thuong, trong. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "throng" (pronounced thrô"ng)
3	-r ô" ng	prong, strong, wrong.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "g-h-n-o-r-t"
	-1 letter: north, thong, thorn.
	-2 letters: grot, hong, horn, thro, tong, torn.
	-3 letters: gor, got, hog, hon, hot, nog, noh, nor, not, nth, ort, rho, rot, tho, tog, ton, tor.
	-4 letters: go, ho, no, oh, on, or, to.
	Words containing the letters "g-h-n-o-r-t"
	+1 letter: throngs.
	+2 letters: frothing, ingrowth, northing, shorting, thorning, thronged, throning, throwing, torching, trothing, worthing.
	+3 letters: authoring, bothering, chortling, dehorting, downright, exhorting, fortnight, hectoring, ingrowths, mothering, nongrowth, northings, overnight, pothering, strongish, throating, throbbing, thronging, tochering, trophying.
	+4 letters: antigrowth, atrophying, bethorning, betrothing, brothering, charioting, crocheting, dethroning, enthroning, fortnights, groupthink, hatemonger, headstrong, heterogeny, heterogony, holstering, inthroning, orthogonal, outhearing, outrushing, overhating, overlength, overnights, pantograph, reclothing, reshooting, retouching, shoestring, shortening, shotgunner, smothering, stronghold, theorising, theorizing, throttling, trichogyne, triphthong, unthroning, untogether, upthrowing.
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