What is the difference between throng and crowd?
throng | crowd |
A group of people crowded or gathered closely together; a multitude.
* Daniel
* Milton
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, 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—
To press forward; to advance by pushing.
To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.
* Addison:
* Macaulay:
To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
* Shakespeare
To fill by pressing or thronging together.
* Prescott
To push, to press, to shove.
* 2006 , Lanna Nakone, Every Child Has a Thinking Style (ISBN 0399532463), page 73:
(nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
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*:Athelstan Arundel walked homeHe walked the whole way, walking through crowds , and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
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*:He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance.she found her mother standing up before the seat on which she had sat all the evening searching anxiously for her with her eyes, and her father by her side.
Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
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(lb) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
* (1809-1892)
*:To fool the crowd with glorious lies.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:He went not with the crowd to see a shrine.
A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
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(obsolete) A crwth, an Ancient Celtic plucked string instrument.
* Ben Jonson
(now dialectal) A fiddle.
* 1819': wandering palmers, hedge-priests, Saxon minstrels, and Welsh bards, were muttering prayers, and extracting mistuned dirges from their harps, '''crowds , and rotes. — Walter Scott, ''Ivanhoe
* 1684': That keep their consciences in cases, / As fiddlers do with ' crowds and bases — Samuel Butler, "Hudibras"
Crowd is a synonym of throng.
In transitive terms the difference between throng and crowd
is that throng is to crowd or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings while crowd is to press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.In intransitive terms the difference between throng and crowd
is that throng is to congregate while crowd is to press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.As an adjective throng
is filled with persons or objects; crowded.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.
Adjective
(en adjective)crowd
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Cognate with Dutch kruien.Verb
(en verb)- The man crowded into the packed room.
- They crowded through the archway and into the park.
- The whole company crowded about the fire.
- Images came crowding on his mind faster than he could put them into words.
- He tried to crowd too many cows into the cow-pen.
- Crowd us and crush us.
- The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign.
- tried to crowd her off the sidewalk
- Alexis's mementos and numerous dance trophies were starting to crowd her out of her little bedroom.
Derived terms
* crowd control * crowd manipulation * crowd out * crowd psychology * crowd sailNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (group of things) aggregation, cluster, group, mass * (group of people) audience, group, multitude, public, swarm, throng * (the "lower orders" of people) everyone, general public, masses, rabble, mob, unwashedDerived terms
* crowd catch * crowd-pleaser * crowd-puller * work the crowdEtymology 2
Celtic, from Welsh crwth.Noun
(en noun)- A lackey that can warble upon a crowd a little.