Syn. — Throng, Multitude, Crowd. Any great number of persons form a
multitude; a throng is a large number of persons who are gathered or
are moving together in a collective body; a crowd is composed of a
large or small number of persons who press together so as to bring
their bodies into immediate or inconvenient contact. A dispersed
multitude; the throngs in the streets of a city; the crowd at a fair or
a street fight. But these distinctions are not carefully observed.
So, with this bold opposer rushes on This many-headed monster,
multitude.
Daniel.
Not to know me argues yourselves unknown, The lowest of your throng.
Milton.
I come from empty noise, and tasteless pomp, From crowds that hide a
monarch from himself.
Johnson.
Throng, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Thronged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Thronging.]
To crowd together; to press together into a close body, as a multitude
of persons; to gather or move in multitudes.