Throng

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  • noun. A large group of people gathered or crowded closely together; a multitude. synonym: crowd.
  • noun. A large group of things; a host.
  • intransitive verb. To crowd into; fill.
  • intransitive verb. To press against in large numbers.
  • intransitive verb. To gather, press, or move in a throng.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Preterit of thring.
  • Thickly crowded or set close together; thronged; crowded.
  • Much occupied or engaged; busy.
  • noun. 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.
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To crowd together; to press together into a close body, as a multitude of persons; to gather or move in multitudes.
  • transitive verb. 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.
  • noun. A multitude of persons or of living beings pressing or pressed into a close body or assemblage; a crowd.
  • noun. A great multitude.
  • adjective. Thronged; crowded; also, much occupied; busy.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A group of people crowded or gathered closely together; a multitude.
  • noun. A group of things; a host or swarm.
  • verb. To crowd into a place, especially to fill it.
  • verb. To congregate.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. press tightly together or cram
  • noun. a large gathering of people
  • Word Usage
    "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."
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