throng
A group of people crowded or gathered closely together.
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#1·Apr 27, 2026
A group of people crowded or gathered closely together.
Perhaps you suppose this throng / Can't keep it up all day long?
Origin: From , thrang, from , crowd, press, tumult, from , throng, from pressing, narrow, from to press, to push; to force, from . Cognate with , . Compare also and . Compare typologically crowd (see there for more). Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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#3·Apr 27, 2026
(transitive) 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 o…
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#2·Apr 27, 2026
A group of things; a host or swarm.
Heard in the wild
“It’s oddly bizarre that trump has to have a throng of people surrounding him for pressers.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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