Hostess vs Throng - What's the difference?
hostess | throng | Synonyms |
A female host.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
, title= A female innkeeper.
Stewardess: a woman steward on an airplane.
A bar hostess or bargirl; a paid female companion offering conversation and in some cases sex.
A group of people crowded or gathered closely together; a multitude.
* Daniel
* Milton
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
, title=
, chapter=2 A group of things; a host or swarm.
(label) To crowd into a place, especially to fill it.
*{{quote-book, year=1935, author=
, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5
, passage=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 of the country.}}
(label) To congregate.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(label) To crowd or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings.
* Bible, (w) v. 24
(Scotland, Northern England, dialect) Filled with persons or objects; crowded.
*1882 , Gerard Manley Hopkins, :
*:EARTH, sweet Earth, sweet landscape, with leavés throng
*:And louchéd low grass, heaven that dost appeal
*:To, with no tongue to plead, no heart to feel;
*:That canst but only be, but dost that long—
Hostess is a synonym of throng.
As nouns the difference between hostess and throng
is that hostess is a female host while throng is a group of people crowded or gathered closely together; a multitude.As a verb throng is
(label) to crowd into a place, especially to fill it.As an adjective throng is
(scotland|northern england|dialect) filled with persons or objects; crowded.hostess
English
(wikipedia hostess)Noun
(es)Keeping the mighty honest, passage=The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.}}
Derived terms
* hostess trolleythrong
English
Noun
(en noun)- So, with this bold opposer rushes on / This many-headed monster, multitude .
- Not to know me argues yourselves unknown, / The lowest of your throng .
citation, passage=Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng ; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.}}
Quotations
* 1885 — *: Perhaps you suppose this throng *: Can't keep it up all day long?Verb
(en verb)George Goodchild
- I have seen the dumb men throng to see him.
- Much people followed him, and thronged him.