Syn. -- Throng, Multitude, Crowd. Any great number of persons form a multitude; a throng is a large number of persons who are gathered or are moving together in a collective body; a crowd is composed of a large or small number of persons who press together so as to bring their bodies into immediate or inconvenient contact. A dispersed multitude; the throngs in the streets of a city; the crowd at a fair or a street fight. But these distinctions are not carefully observed.

So, with this bold opposer rushes on
This many-headed monster, multitude. Daniel.

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown,
The lowest of your throng. Milton.

I come from empty noise, and tasteless pomp,
From crowds that hide a monarch from himself. Johnson.

I have seen the dumb men throng to see him. Shak.

Much people followed him, and thronged him. Mark v. 24.

To the intent the sick . . . should not lie too throng. Robynson (More's Utopia).