throng
noun
[ θrɒŋ ]
• a large, densely packed crowd of people or animals.
• "he pushed his way through the throng"
Similar:
crowd,
mass,
multitude,
horde,
host,
mob,
assemblage,
gathering,
congregation,
crush,
press,
body,
band,
army,
troop,
legion,
gang,
stream,
swarm,
flock,
bevy,
herd,
pack,
drove,
array,
sea,
myriad,
pile,
knot,
cluster,
group,
throng
verb
• (of a crowd) fill or be present in (a place or area).
• "a crowd thronged the station"
Similar:
pack (into),
cram (into),
jam,
fill,
press into,
squeeze into,
mob,
crowd round,
press round,
mill around/round,
congregate round,
converge round,
hem in,
jostle,
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’.
