Throng

Word THRONG
Character 6
Hyphenation throng
Pronunciations /θɹɒŋ/

Definitions and meanings of "Throng"

What do we mean by throng?

A large group of people gathered or crowded closely together; a multitude. synonym: crowd. noun

A large group of things; a host. noun

To crowd into; fill. intransitive verb

To press against in large numbers. intransitive verb

To gather, press, or move in a throng. intransitive verb

Thickly crowded or set close together; thronged; crowded.

Much occupied or engaged; busy.

A crowd or great concourse of people; a multitude, great in proportion to the space it occupies or can occupy. noun

A great number: as, the heavenly throng. noun

A busy period, great press of business, or the time when business is most active: as, the throng of the harvest; he called just in the throng. noun

Synonyms Crowd, etc. See multitude. noun

Preterit of thring.

To come (or go) in multitudes; press eagerly in crowds; crowd.

To crowd or press; press unduly upon, as a crowd or multitude of people anxious to view something.

To crowd into; fill as or as with a crowd.

To fill or stuff.

To crowd, or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings. transitive verb

To crowd into; to fill closely by crowding or pressing into, as a hall or a street. transitive verb

A multitude of persons or of living beings pressing or pressed into a close body or assemblage; a crowd. noun

A great multitude. noun

A group of people crowded or gathered closely together.

A group of things; a host or swarm.

N. A group of people of the opposite sex that you have crushed on or that have crushed on you, that you keep up casual flirtatious relationships with, and are contacted usually on a convenience basis. Urban Dictionary

Wearing a thong the wrong way Urban Dictionary

Sexual desire. A combination of throbbing and longing. Urban Dictionary

When a large group of men gather around a woman wearing semi-revealing undergarments. Urban Dictionary

Extremely busy, hard pressed, crowded out with work. Originally from Norse Urban Dictionary

A large gathering of gay males. Urban Dictionary

A combination of throbbing and longing caused by extreme sexual desire Urban Dictionary

A number of people that seem to suddenly appear out of nowhere whenever you've recently purchased some good marijuana. Urban Dictionary

The feeling of being unable to pass wind in a convenience store. Urban Dictionary

To get excited and or worried. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Throng

The word "throng" in example sentences

Iffesheim was pure pleasure, like every other item of Baden existence, and all aristocratic, sparkling, rich, amusement-seeking Europe seemed gathered there under the sunny skies, and on everyone's lips in the titled throng was but one name -- Forest King's. ❋ 1839-1908 Ouida (1873)

As it happened, Sen. Joe Lieberman was also at the airport, surrounded by a throng from the national press corps. ❋ Winston Groom (2011)

Among the figures in the throng was a young man named Robert Vaughn, who would go on to become a well-known actor in films and television. ❋ Scott Eyman (2010)

Joining the throng are the Budget Rent a Car unit of the Cendant Corporation …. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Her throng was the air, and her wings were the multitude of flying movements in her brain. ❋ Marsden Hartley (N/A)

Lafayette on his white horse and a host of people of the slums, but this time in the midst of the throng was a great lumbering coach, in which rode Louis and his wife and children, for Paris now insisted that the court should no longer possess the freedom of Versailles in which to plot unwatched against the rights of the French people. ❋ Carlton J. H. Hayes (1923)

Among the throng was a strong contingent of young men from Liskeard, a town three miles distant, between whom and the youth of Menheniot an ancient feud existed. ❋ Jenkins, Herbert (1912)

As the hour for the arrival of the stage approached, the crowd massed in front of the hotel, filling the lobby, the arcade and the street, and still scattered through the throng were the men from the ❋ Harold Bell Wright (1908)

Near the outer edge of the throng was a red-lipped Juno, superbly rounded, who had gleaned in the fields until she was all a Gipsy brown, and her movements of a Gipsy grace in their freeness. ❋ Harry Leon Wilson (1903)

Outside the throng was a carriage, stopp'd for a minute by this tumult, and a servant at the horses 'heads. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

In the throng was a woman who for twelve years had been afflicted with a serious ailment involving frequent hemorrhage. ❋ James Edward Talmage (1897)

Usually to be discovered among the throng are the velvety black _Lytta_ or _Cantharis_, that impostor wasp-beetle, the black and yellow wavy-banded, red-legged locust-tree borer, and the painted _Clytus_, banded with yellow and sable, squeaking contentedly as he gnaws the florets that feed him. ❋ Neltje Blanchan (1891)

The throng was a well-dressed one, and consequently of a cold and evil temper if one worked against it. ❋ Henry Seton Merriman (1882)

Among the more deliberate of the throng was a slender, upright, ruddy-cheeked gentleman of middle age, accompanied by his wife and a daughter of sixteen. ❋ George Gissing (1880)

If nothing worthy of attention be met upon the road, the ranks are fairly well maintained; but, at the first suspicion of an Ant-hill, the vanguard halts and deploys in a swarming throng, which is increased by the others as they come up hurriedly. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)

There amongst the throng was the Bride in her maiden's attire, but girt with the sword, going from booth to booth with her guests of the ❋ William Morris (1865)

So completely closed round by the throng were the English party, that they could neither move forward nor recede. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

But most conspicuous in the throng was a large, obese, cross-eyed Indian, earnestly engaged in his medicine-performances for her recovery. ❋ Unknown (1841)

The foremost of the throng was a youth whose slender figure and beautiful countenance seemed hardly consistent with his sex. ❋ Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1829)

Seeing that the very principle of representation had been thus systematically attacked, he knew not how to call the throng of gentlemen which he saw around him by the honourable name of a House of Commons. ❋ Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1829)

[Keith] has a [large] throng of [freshman girls]. ❋ Not Lisa Page (2005)

[Oops]! I [put] my throng on [wrong]! ❋ AR13$ (2020)

I can still remember the strange thronging in my [loins] that [Adam Ant] first [stirred] when I was a girl of twelve. Every time I think of my beautiful boyfriend, I am overwhelmed by a powerful thronging. ❋ RedCath (2011)

Wow, did you see the [throng] that showed up when [Britney] [took off] her pants? ❋ ElvisJumpsNine (2010)

"I can't talk now, I'm totally thronged." means [swamped] with work. "I came in to work and was thronged with emails." Common expression in Wall Street law firms. Originally from Old Norse. cf Icelandic þröng, etc. (narrow, tightly pressed; compelled, forced in the sense of being pressed to do something ); [trang] (narrow), Swedish trång (narrow, tight). All probably related to the Standard English [throng] (crowded, to form a tightly-packed crowd, etc.). Perhaps from Yorkshire dialect. Variants: [thrang], threng. ❋ Bensil Lisk (2005)

[Congress] ❋ GOD (2003)

Ms Jones felt an urgent thronging in her [loins] every time she [glanced] at her [repressed], yet incredibly sexy lover. ❋ VeryMuchLefterCath (2011)

Just minutes after [Grant] scored some weed, a bong throng [showed up] at his house looking to [hit that shit] for free. ❋ Verbal Platinum Princess (2009)

“Last night I was shopping for some [eggs] and [Pimms] in [Tesco], I was completely Schlonkle Thronged.” ❋ Okay Spinach (2021)

[Oh] don't get your thong in a throng, [everything] is going to be [ok]. ❋ Evan Porrine (2008)

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