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–noun 

1. a multitude of people crowded or assembled together; crowd.

2. a great number of things crowded or considered together: a throng of [memories]. 

3. Chiefly Scot. pressure, as of work. 



–verb (used without object) 

4. to assemble, collect, or go in large numbers; crowd. 



–verb (used with object) 

5. to crowd or press upon; jostle.

6. to fill or occupy with or as with a crowd: He thronged the picture [with] stars. 

7. to bring or drive together into or as into a crowd, heap, or collection.

8. to fill by crowding or pressing into: They thronged the small room.  



–adjective Scot. and North England. 

9. filled with people or objects; crowded.

10. (of time) filled with things to do; busy. 



—Synonyms 

1. horde (遊牧部落), host; assemblage. See crowd1



Crowd, multitude, swarm, throng refer to large numbers of people.



Crowd suggests a jostling, uncomfortable, and possibly disorderly company: A crowd gathered to listen to the speech. 



Multitude emphasizes the great number of persons or things but suggests that there is space enough for all: a multitude of people at the market on Saturdays. 



Swarm as used of people is usually contemptuous, suggesting a moving, restless, often noisy, crowd: A swarm of [dirty] children played in the street. 



Throng suggests a company that presses together or forward, often with some common aim: The throng pushed forward [to] see the cause of the excitement.





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throng (v.), thronged (adj.) 

 

The verb is both transitive, as in The students thronge[d t]he square, and intransitive, when it frequently combines with the prepositions to or toward(s), as in The bystanders thronged [to] [toward(s)] the bandstand. 



In the passive voice, thronged combines with by and with to indicate who did the thronging, as in The streets were thronged [by] [with] demonstrators. 





　

Given that nod to current trends, the film’s finale comes across as a willful throwback. One evening, Mike and Jerry’s last production is shown to the community: projected onto a screen, it grows visible through the window, and everyone throngs [in] the street to watch, [perched] on stoops like kids in an Andy Hardy picture. 



The moment is pinched, I suspect, [from] a scene in "Cinema Paradiso," when Philippe Noiret projected an old movie onto a wall of a town square, but that was a miraculous visitation in a place adrift from the wide world, and it was beautifully spliced [into] the sentimental efficiency of the whole story. 



Twenty-first-century New Jersey, though, is another matter, and if Gondry really thinks that he can [will] his movie, not to mention his audience, back into a state of innocence, he’s kidding himself.





rabble

The [nobility] held [the rabble] in complete contempt. 

paean 

is [at] some level

a [paean] of [praise] [to] the fortitude and moral courage that 

[paeon] a prosodic foot in verse - ---

[peon] social have-nots

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