MEANING
1. To gather in great numbers in or around a place, or to fill it as a crowd.
2. As a noun, a large crowd of people; this is a secondary part of speech.
Use it for
Dense public gatherings; crowd-filled venues; collective movementTurn the location into the object of a crowd's arrival.
Words that belong together
- throng the streets
- throng into the square
- throng around the entrance
On the page
Visitors thronged the streets after the announcement.
Fans began thronging into the district long before the match.
The library steps were thronged with families waiting for the free performance.
Nearby words
Related words
Word forms
- Base
- throng / throngs
- Past tense
- thronged
- Past participle
- thronged
- Present participle
- thronging
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- throng / throngs
- Present continuous
- am/is/are thronging
- Present perfect
- have/has thronged
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been thronging
- Past
- thronged
- Past continuous
- was/were thronging
- Past perfect
- had thronged
- Past perfect continuous
- had been thronging
- Future
- will throng / throngs
- Future continuous
- will be thronging
- Future perfect
- will have thronged
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been thronging
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: setting. Both transitive and intransitive: visitors throng the square; visitors throng into the square. More crowd-focused than congregate. The noun denotes a crowd. Base: throng; third-person singular: throngs; past: thronged; past participle: thronged; present participle: thronging. Related derivations are listed separately under related.
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