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# throng

«throng» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large crowd of people pressed close together** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (throngs); verb (throng, throngs, thronged, thronging)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A throng is a large crowd of people pressed close together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/throng/#m1)

2) To throng is to crowd round or fill a place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/throng/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a crowd gathering at a church, a target or a royal court; people pressing round a person to see or hear

### examples

- There was such a throng before the church that Trembling could not get in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/throng/#x1)
- The shooters were thronging round the target. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/throng/#x2)
- The courtiers will throng round the princess. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/throng/#x3)

### note

a throng is a crowd, not a set number; count the people if a count is needed

### In the corpora

- [We took sweet counsel together, in the house of God we walked with the throng.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.906/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «throng» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/throng/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.