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Definition of throng noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

throng

noun
 
/θrɒŋ/
 
/θrɔːŋ/
(literary)
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  1. a crowd of people
    • We pushed our way through the throng.
    • He was met by a throng of journalists and photographers.
    Extra Examples
    • She was lost in the throng.
    • Shopkeepers were closing up and joining the throng in the streets.
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • assembled
    • gathered
    verb + throng
    • join
    preposition
    • among/​through the throng
    • in the throng
    • into the throng
    • …
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    Word OriginOld English (ge)thrang ‘crowd, tumult’, of Germanic origin. The early sense of the verb (Middle English) was ‘press violently, force one's way’.
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