throng

Meaning

Noun

1. A group of people crowded or gathered closely together.
2. A group of things; a host or swarm.

Verb

1. To crowd into a place, especially to fill it.
2. To congregate.
3. To crowd or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings.

Adj

1. Filled with persons or objects; crowded.
2. Busy; hurried.

Synonyms

crowd

swarm

mob

flock

multitude

mass

gather

group

concourse

jam

press

crowd around

pack

congregate

horde

host

stream

community

crush

surround

troop

huddle

come together

mill about

cluster around

ruck

gathering

beset

shoal

besiege

squeeze

herd

surge

traffic jam

crowd round

congestion

congregation

hustle and bustle

pile

bunch

rabble

assembly

mingle with

come in crowds

batch

overcrowd

band

great number

party

🥳

drove

rush

gather around

fly around

hem in

squash

swarm around

company

block up

cram

cluster

Host

large number of

push against

squeeze in

tag-rag

be mobbed

disorderly crowd

be crowded

be jammed

be besieged

be close to

be congested

be crammed

be multitudinous

be thronged

come in great number

run in a crowd

run up together in crowds

large mass

swarm up

press on one another

a quantity

surround in crowds

accumulation

milling crowd

adhere

a lot of

army

assemble

battalion

battery

🔋

bevy

body

boodle

bustle

charge

cling

clump

clutch

collect

commonalty

confluence

confusion

covey

crowded

crowding

crowd together

current

fill up

flow

force

gang

heap

heaps

hustle

intersection

jostle

knot

🪢

lots

masses

mill

muster

number

🔢

onlookers

overcrowding

people

🧑‍🤝‍🧑

platoon

plenty of

quantity

rally

resort

riffraff

rush in

score

set

shove

stick

stuff

troop out

tumult

welter

flock together

gather round

head towards

Pronounced as (IPA)

/θɹɒŋ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: throng

Inherited from Old English: þrang

Cognate with Dutch: drang

Cognate with German: Drang

Cognate with German: Gedränge

In summary

From Middle English throng, thrang, from Old English þrang, ġeþrang (“crowd, press, tumult”), from Proto-Germanic *þrangwą, *þrangwō (“throng”), from *þrangwaz (“pressing, narrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *trenkʷ- (“to beat; pound; hew; press”). Cognate with Dutch drang, German Drang. Compare also German Gedränge (“throng”).