different between throng vs populace

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)

1. 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.
2. 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)

1. (transitive) To crowd into a place, especially to fill it.
2. (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: […]

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)

1. (Northern England, Scotland, dialectal) Filled with persons or objects; crowded.
2. (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.

English

Etymology

From Middle French populace, from Italian popolaccio.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p?pj?l?s/
• (US) enPR: päp?y?-l?s, IPA^(key): /?p?pj?l?s/
• Homophone: populous

Noun

populace (countable and uncountable, plural populaces)

1. The common people of a nation.
2. The inhabitants of a nation.

Usage notes

• Do not confuse populace (a noun) with populous (an adjective).

Synonyms

• (common people of a nation): common people, hoi polloi, masses, people, rabble, riff-raff
• (inhabitants of a nation): inhabitants, population

Translations

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?populat?s?]
• Hyphenation: po?pu?la?ce

Noun

populace f

1. population

Declension

Derived terms

• popula?ní

Further reading

• populace in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• populace in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

French

Noun

populace f (plural populaces)

1. populace, common people

Further reading

• “populace” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).