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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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herd
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /h??d/
- (General American) IPA(key): /h?d/
- Rhymes: -??(?)d
- Homophone: heard
Etymology 1
From Middle English herde, heerde, heorde, from Old English hierd, heord (“herd, flock; keeping, care, custody”), from Proto-Germanic *herd? (“herd”), from Proto-Indo-European *?erd?- (“file, row, herd”). Cognate with German Herde, Swedish hjord. Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian herdhe (“nest”) and Serbo-Croatian krdo.
Noun
herd (plural herds)
- A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper. [from 11th c.]
- 1768, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,
- The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea.
- 1768, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,
- Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company. [from 13th c.]
- 2007, J. Michael Fay, Ivory Wars: Last Stand in Zakouma, National Geographic (March 2007), 47,
- Zakouma is the last place on Earth where you can see more than a thousand elephants on the move in a single, compact herd.
- 2007, J. Michael Fay, Ivory Wars: Last Stand in Zakouma, National Geographic (March 2007), 47,
- (now usually derogatory) A crowd, a mass of people; now usually pejorative: a rabble. [from 15th c.]
- 1833, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk, 8 June 1833
- You can never interest the common herd in the abstract question.
- 1833, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk, 8 June 1833
Derived terms
- herd immunity
- herd instinct
Translations
Verb
herd (third-person singular simple present herds, present participle herding, simple past and past participle herded)
- (intransitive) To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company.
- Sheep herd on many hills.
- (transitive) To unite or associate in a herd
- (transitive) To manage, care for or guard a herd
- (intransitive) To associate; to ally oneself with, or place oneself among, a group or company.
- I’ll herd among his friends, and seem
One of the number.
- I’ll herd among his friends, and seem
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English herde, from Old English hirde, hierde, from Proto-West Germanic *hird?, from Proto-Germanic *hirdijaz. Cognate with German Hirte, Swedish herde, Danish hyrde.
Noun
herd (plural herds)
- (now rare) Someone who keeps a group of domestic animals; a herdsman.
- 2000, Alasdair Grey, The Book of Prefaces, Bloomsbury 2002, page 38:
- Any talent which gives a good new thing to others is a miracle, but commentators have thought it extra miraculous that England's first known poet was an illiterate herd.
- 2000, Alasdair Grey, The Book of Prefaces, Bloomsbury 2002, page 38:
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
herd (third-person singular simple present herds, present participle herding, simple past and past participle herded)
- (intransitive, Scotland) To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.
- (transitive) To form or put into a herd.
- (transitive) To move or drive a herd.
Translations
See also
- Appendix:English collective nouns
- drove
- gather
- muster
- round up
- ride herd on
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
herd
- imperative of herde
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *herþ.
Noun
herd m
- hearth
Descendants
- Middle High German: hert
- German: Herd
- Luxembourgish: Häerd
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