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Throned vs Thronged - What's the difference?

throned | thronged |

As verbs the difference between throned and thronged

is that throned is past tense of throne while thronged is past tense of throng.

throned

English

Verb

(head)
  • (throne)

    • Anagrams

    *

    throne

    English

    (Thrones)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The ornate seat a king or queen sits on for formal occasions, usually placed on a raised dais in the throne room.
  • * He approached the throne reverently.
  • The formal position of a sovereign.
  • * Bible, Genesis xli. 40
    • Only in the throne will I be greater than thou.
  • * Tennyson
    • To mould a mighty state's decrees, / And shape the whisper of the throne .
  • (colloquial) The lavatory or toilet.
  • * She’s on the throne .
  • (Biblical tradition) The third highest order of angel in Christian angelology, ranked above dominions and below cherubim.
  • * Young
    • Great Sire! whom thrones celestial ceaseless sing.
  • (music) A type of stool used by drummers.
  • (figuratively) The leadership.

    • Derived terms

    * power behind the throne * thronal * throneship

    Verb

    (thron)
  • (archaic) To place on a royal seat; to enthrone.
  • (archaic) To place in an elevated position; to give sovereignty or dominion to; to exalt.
  • * (rfdate) Milton
    • True image of the Father, whether throned / In the bosom of bliss, and light of light.
  • (archaic) To be in, or sit upon, a throne; to be placed as if upon a throne.

    • See also

    * ophan

    Anagrams

    * ----

    thronged

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (throng)

    • throng

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A group of people crowded or gathered closely together; a multitude.
  • * Daniel
    • So, with this bold opposer rushes on / This many-headed monster, multitude .
  • * Milton
    • Not to know me argues yourselves unknown, / The lowest of your throng .
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
    • , title= , chapter=2 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.}}
  • A group of things; a host or swarm.

    • Quotations

    * 1885 — *: Perhaps you suppose this throng *: Can't keep it up all day long?

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (label) To crowd into a place, especially to fill it.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild
    • , 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)
    • I have seen the dumb men throng to see him.
  • (label) To crowd or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings.
  • * Bible, (w) v. 24
    • Much people followed him, and thronged him.

    Related terms

    * thring

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (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—