Throng vs Populace - 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.
*{{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—
The common people of a nation.
* The populace despised their ignorant leader.
* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
, title=Internal Combustion
, chapter=2 The inhabitants of a nation.
Throng is a related term of populace.
As nouns the difference between throng and populace
is that throng is a group of people crowded or gathered closely together; a multitude while populace is the common people of a nation.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.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 .
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.
Adjective
(en adjective)populace
English
Noun
citation, passage=Throughout the 1500s, the populace roiled over a constellation of grievances of which the forest emerged as a key focal point. The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.}}