Definition of Throng

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Throng

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A multitude of persons or of living beings pressing or pressed into a close body or assemblage; a crowd.

A great multitude; as, the heavenly throng.

To crowd together; to press together into a close body, as a multitude of persons; to gather or move in multitudes.

To crowd, or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings.

To crowd into; to fill closely by crowding or pressing into, as a hall or a street.

Thronged; crowded; also, much occupied; busy.

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Throng Quotations

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
Saint Augustine

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
Benjamin Cardozo

Throng Translations

throng in Italian is affluenza
throng in Spanish is concurrencia

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