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Thronged vs Crowded - What's the difference?

thronged | crowded |

As verbs the difference between thronged and crowded

is that thronged is (throng) while crowded is (crowd).

As an adjective crowded is

containing too many of something; teeming.

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—

    • crowded

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Containing too many of something; teeming.

    • Synonyms

    * teeming * the world and his wife

    Verb

    (head)
  • (crowd)