THRONG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does throng mean? 

• THRONG (noun)
  The noun THRONG has 1 sense:

1. a large gathering of people

  Familiarity information: THRONG used as a noun is very rare.

• THRONG (verb)
  The verb THRONG has 1 sense:

1. press tightly together or cram

  Familiarity information: THRONG used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THRONG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large gathering of people

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

concourse; multitude; throng

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)

• THRONG (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they throng    ... he / she / it throngs   
Past simple: thronged   
Past participle: thronged   
-ing form: thronging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Press tightly together or cram

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

jam; mob; pack; pile; throng

Context example:

The crowd packed the auditorium

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)

 Context examples 

One couple out of the moving throng especially engaged the attention of the two young squires, the more so as they were going in their own direction and immediately in front of them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For my part, I tried also to press through the throng, but it was no easy task for one of the smallest and weakest men in the room.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The days were thronged with experience for White Fang.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Across their shoulders he could see the moving throng passing under the street lamps.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The close-packed throng extended from the other side of the Langham Hotel to Oxford Circus.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With a snarl of contempt he turned upon his heel, and I saw his curved back and white side-whiskers disappear among the throng.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Discipline prevailed: in five minutes the confused throng was resolved into order, and comparative silence quelled the Babel clamour of tongues.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Not only was her first-floor flat invaded at all hours by throngs of singular and often undesirable characters but her remarkable lodger showed an eccentricity and irregularity in his life which must have sorely tried her patience.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I thought I should have died when I saw you two girls rattling about in the what-you-call-it, like two little kernels in a very big nutshell, and Mother waiting in state to receive the throng, sighed Jo, quite spent with laughter.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

With more care for the safety of her new gown than for the comfort of her protegee, Mrs. Allen made her way through the throng of men by the door, as swiftly as the necessary caution would allow; Catherine, however, kept close at her side, and linked her arm too firmly within her friend's to be torn asunder by any common effort of a struggling assembly.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)