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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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league
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /li??/
- Rhymes: -i??
Etymology 1
From Middle English liege, ligg, lige (“a pact between governments, an agreement, alliance”), from Middle French ligue, from Italian lega, from the verb legare, from Latin lig? (“I tie”).
Noun
league (plural leagues)
- A group or association of cooperating members.
- 1668, John Denham, The Passion of Dido for Aeneas
- And let there be / 'Twixt us and them no league, nor amity.
- 1668, John Denham, The Passion of Dido for Aeneas
- (sports) An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship.
- (informal, rugby) Ellipsis of rugby league
- (often in the negative) A class or type of people or things that are evenly matched or on the same level.
- A prefecture-level administrative unit in Inner Mongolia (Chinese: ?).
Derived terms
Related terms
- ally
- alliance
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ??? (r?gu)
- ? Korean: ?? (rigeu)
Translations
Verb
league (third-person singular simple present leagues, present participle leaguing, simple past and past participle leagued)
- To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support.
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Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English lege (“league”), from Late Latin leuca, leuga (“the Gaulish mile”), from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *lewg? (compare Middle Breton leau, Welsh lew, Breton lev / leo (“league”)).
Noun
league (plural leagues)
- (measurement) The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three English miles (about five kilometers).
- 1751-1753, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, History of Louisiana (PG), p. 47
- Seven leagues above the mouth of the river we meet with two other passes, as large as the middle one by which we entered.
- 1751-1753, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, History of Louisiana (PG), p. 47
- A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.
Translations
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “league”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
- Middle English Dictionary, lege
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