throng
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throng
- /θɹɒŋ/ UK
- /θɹɔŋ/ US
- /θɹɑŋ/ cot caught merger
Rhymes with -ɒŋ
Where it comes from
From Middle English throng, thrang, from Old English þrang, ġeþrang (“crowd, press, tumult”), from Proto-Germanic *þrangwą, *þrangwō (“throng”), from *þrangwaz (“pressing, narrow”), from *þrinhwaną (“to press, to push; to force”), from Proto-Indo-European *trenkʷ- (“to beat; pound; hew; press”). Cognate with Dutch drang, German Drang. Compare also German Gedränge (“throng”) and Persian ترنجیدن (Trenjidan, “to beat, to push”).
Compare typologically crowd (see there for more).
noun throngs
- A group of people crowded or gathered closely together. Not to know me argues yourselves unknown, The lowest of your throng.
- A group of things; a host or swarm. Bloody corpses, broken bones reveal / A throng of clashes crushed, our nightmare sealed / Amongst the shadows and the stones
verb throngs · thronging · thronged
- To crowd into a place, especially to fill it. By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.
- To congregate. […]I have seen the dumb men throng to see him and / The blind to bear him speak:[…]
- To crowd or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings. Much people followed him, and thronged him.
adjective thronger · throngest
- Filled with persons or objects; crowded. Earth, sweet Earth, sweet landscape, with leavès throng / And louchèd low grass, heaven that dost appeal / To, with no tongue to plead, no heart to feel; / That canst but only be, but dost that long— […]
- Busy; hurried. Mr Shaw was very civil; he said he was rather throng just now, but if Ernest did not mind the sound of hammering he should be very glad of a talk with him.
