Synonyms of the word throng


THRONGASSEMBLAGE - CONCOURSE - CROWD - GATHERING - JAM - MOB - MULTITUDE - PACK - PILE

throng

  • n. A group of people crowded or gathered closely together; a multitude.
  • n. A group of things; a host or swarm.
  • v. (transitive) To crowd into a place, especially to fill it.
  • v. (intransitive) To congregate.
  • v. (transitive) To crowd or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings.
  • adj. (Scotland, Northern England, dialect) Filled with persons or objects; crowded.

assemblage

  • n. The process of assembling or bringing together.
  • n. A collection of things which have been gathered together or assembled.
  • n. (art) A visual art form similar to collage, which combines two-dimensional and three-dimensional, often…

concourse

  • n. A large open space in or in front of a building where people can gather, particularly one joining various…
  • n. A large group of people; a crowd.
  • n. The running or flowing together of things; the meeting of things; confluence.
  • n. An open space, especially in a park, where several roads or paths meet.
  • n. (obsolete) concurrence; cooperation.

crowd

  • v. (intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.
  • v. (intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.
  • v. (transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
  • v. (transitive) To fill by pressing or thronging together.
  • v. (transitive, often used with "out of" or "off") To push, to press, to shove.
  • v. (nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
  • v. (nautical, of a square-rigged ship, transitive) To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
  • v. (transitive) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
  • n. A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
  • n. Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
  • n. (with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
  • n. A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
  • n. (obsolete) Alternative form of crwth.
  • n. (now dialectal) A fiddle.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

gathering

  • n. A meeting or get-together; a party or social function.
  • n. A group of people or things.
  • n. (bookbinding) A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half.
  • n. A charitable contribution; a collection.
  • n. (medicine) A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
  • v. present participle of gather.

jam

  • n. A sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used…
  • n. (countable) A difficult situation.
  • n. (countable) Blockage, congestion.
  • n. (countable, popular music) An informal, impromptu performance or rehearsal.
  • n. (countable, by extension) An informal event where people brainstorm and collaborate on projects.
  • n. (countable, baseball) A difficult situation for a pitcher or defending team.
  • n. (countable, basketball) A forceful dunk.
  • n. (countable, roller derby) A play during which points can be scored.
  • n. (climbing, countable) Any of several maneuvers requiring wedging of an extremity into a tight space.
  • n. (Britain, slang) luck.
  • n. (slang) sexual relations or the contemplation of them.
  • v. To get something stuck in a confined space.
  • v. To brusquely force something into a space; cram, squeeze.
  • v. To cause congestion or blockage. Often used with "up".
  • v. To block or confuse a broadcast signal.
  • v. (baseball) To throw a pitch at or near the batter's hands.
  • v. (music) To play music (especially improvisation as a group, or an informal unrehearsed session).
  • v. To injure a finger or toe by sudden compression of the digit's tip.
  • v. (roller derby) To attempt to score points.
  • v. (nautical) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.
  • v. (Canada, informal) To give up on a date or some joint endeavour; stand up, chicken out, jam out.
  • n. (dated) A kind of frock for children.
  • n. (mining) Alternative form of jamb.

mob

  • n. A large or disorderly group of people; especially one bent on riotous or destructive action.
  • n. A commonly used collective noun for animals such as horses or cattle.
  • n. The Mafia, or a similar group that engages in organized crime (preceded by the).
  • n. (video games) A non-player character, especially one that exists to be fought or killed to further the…
  • n. (archaic) The lower classes of a community; the rabble.
  • n. (Australian Aboriginal) A cohesive group of people.
  • v. (transitive) To crowd around (someone), sometimes with hostility.
  • v. (transitive) To crowd into or around a place.
  • n. (obsolete) A promiscuous woman; a harlot or wench; a prostitute.
  • n. A mob cap.
  • v. (transitive) To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl.
  • n. mobile phone.

multitude

  • n. A great amount or number, often of people; myriad; profusion; abundance.
  • n. The mass of ordinary people; the populous or the masses.

pack

  • n. A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back; a load for…
  • n. A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack.
  • n. a multitude.
  • n. A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
  • n. A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game.
  • n. A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
  • n. A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together.
  • n. A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.
  • n. A group of Cub Scouts.
  • n. A shook of cask staves.
  • n. A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
  • n. A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
  • n. (medicine) An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack,…
  • n. (slang): A loose, lewd, or worthless person.
  • n. (snooker, pool) A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.
  • n. (rugby) The team on the field.
  • v. (physical) To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
  • v. (social) To cheat, to arrange matters unfairly.
  • v. (transitive) To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber.
  • v. To move, send or carry.
  • v. (transitive, sports, slang) To block a shot, especially in basketball.
  • v. (intransitive, LGBT slang, of a drag king, transman, etc.) To wear a simulated penis or other manbulge-causing…

pile

  • n. A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
  • n. (figuratively, informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind…
  • n. A mass formed in layers.
  • n. A funeral pile; a pyre.
  • n. A large building, or mass of buildings.
  • n. A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering…
  • n. A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks…
  • n. (obsolete) The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
  • n. (figuratively) A list or league.
  • v. (transitive, often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to…
  • v. (transitive) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
  • v. (transitive) To add something to a great number.
  • v. (transitive) (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
  • v. (transitive, military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright,…
  • n. (obsolete) A dart; an arrow.
  • n. The head of an arrow or spear.
  • n. A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support…
  • n. (heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise,…
  • v. (transitive) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
  • n. (usually in the plural) A hemorrhoid.
  • n. Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now…
  • n. The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
  • n. An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.

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