Definition of "throng" []

• A large group of people gathered or crowded closely together; a multitude. See Synonyms at crowd1. (noun)
• A large group of things; a host. (noun)
• To crowd into; fill: commuters thronging the subway platform. (verb-transitive)
• To press in on. (verb-transitive)
• To gather, press, or move in a throng. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Iffesheim was pure pleasure, like every other item of Baden existence, and all aristocratic, sparkling, rich, amusement-seeking Europe seemed gathered there under the sunny skies, and on everyone's lips in the titled throng was but one name -- Forest King's."
• "As it happened, Sen. Joe Lieberman was also at the airport, surrounded by a throng from the national press corps."
• "Among the figures in the throng was a young man named Robert Vaughn, who would go on to become a well-known actor in films and television."