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throng
English
Etymology
From Middle English throng, thrang, from Old English þrang, ?eþrang (“crowd, press, tumult”), from Proto-Germanic *þrangw?, *þrangw? (“throng”), from *þrangwaz (“pressing, narrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *trenk?- (“to beat; pound; hew; press”). Cognate with Dutch drang, German Drang. Compare also German Gedränge (“throng”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: thr?ng, IPA(key): /????/
- (US) enPR: thrông, thr?ng, IPA(key): /????/, /????/
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
throng (plural throngs)
- A group of people crowded or gathered closely together.
- Synonyms: crowd, multitude
- 1939, Ammianus Marcellinus, John Carew Rolfe, Ammianus Marcellinus, Volume 1, Harvard University Press, page 463:
- Here, mingled with the Persians, who were rushing to the higher ground with the same effort as ourselves, we remained motionless until sunrise of the next day, so crowded together that the bodies of the slain, held upright by the throng, could nowhere find room to fall, and that in front of me a soldier with his head cut in two, and split into equal halves by a powerful sword stroke, was so pressed on all sides that he stood erect like a stump.
- A group of things; a host or swarm.
Translations
Verb
throng (third-person singular simple present throngs, present participle thronging, simple past and past participle thronged)
- (transitive) To crowd into a place, especially to fill it.
- (intransitive) To congregate.
- c. 1608, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act II scene i[3]:
- […] I have seen the dumb men throng to see him and / The blind to bear him speak: […]
- c. 1608, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act II scene i[3]:
- (transitive) To crowd or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings.
- Much people followed him, and thronged him.
Related terms
- thring
Translations
Adjective
throng (comparative more throng, superlative most throng)
- (Northern England, Scotland, dialectal) Filled with persons or objects; crowded.
- (Northern England, Scotland, dialectal) Busy; hurried.
- 1903, Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, ch 59:
- Mr Shaw was very civil; he said he was rather throng just now, but if Ernest did not mind the sound of hammering he should be very glad of a talk with him.
- 1903, Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, ch 59:
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confederation
English
Alternative forms
- confœderation (archaic)
Etymology
From Middle French confédération, from Old French confederacion, from Latin confoederatio.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?nf?d???e???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
confederation (plural confederations)
- A union or alliance of states or political organizations.
- The act of forming an alliance.
Synonyms
- alliance
- confederacy
- federation
- league
Derived terms
- confederationism
- confederationist
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