throng

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

throng [throng throngs thronged thronging] noun, verb BrE [θrɒŋ] NAmE [θrɔːŋ] NAmE [θrɑːŋ]
noun (literary)
a crowd of people
•We pushed our way through the throng.
•He was met by a throng of journalists and photographers.

Word Origin:
Old English (ge)thrang ‘crowd, tumult’, of Germanic origin. The early sense of the verb (Middle English) was ‘press violently, force one's way’.

Example Bank:
•He made his way slowly through the throng.
•She was lost in the throng.
•people coming from all directions to join the throng
•Shopkeepers were closing up and joining the throng in the streets.
Derived: ↑throng with somebody ▪ ↑thronged with somebody
 
verb intransitive, transitive (literary)
to go somewhere or be present somewhere in large numbers
•+ adv./prep. The children thronged into the hall.
•~ to do sth People are thronging to see his new play.
•~ sth Crowds thronged the stores.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
Old English (ge)thrang ‘crowd, tumult’, of Germanic origin. The early sense of the verb (Middle English) was ‘press violently, force one's way’.
 

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  multitude, concourse, mob, pack, pile, jam