Throng vs Confederation - What's the difference?
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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.
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, 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—
A union or alliance of states or political organizations.
The act of forming an alliance.
As nouns the difference between throng and confederation
is that throng is a group of people crowded or gathered closely together; a multitude while confederation is a union or alliance of states or political organizations.As a verb throng
is to crowd into a place, especially to fill it.As an adjective throng
is filled with persons or objects; crowded.As a proper noun Confederation is
in Canada, the federal union of provinces and territories which formed Canada, beginning with New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, and Quebec, and later including all the others.throng
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 .
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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.