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},
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"3": "*trenkʷ-",
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"name": "inh"
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"2": "drang"
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"2": "Drang"
},
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"2": "Gedränge",
"t": "throng"
},
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English throng, thrang, from Old English þrang, ġeþrang (“crowd, press, tumult”), from Proto-Germanic *þrangwą, *þrangwō (“throng”), from *þrangwaz (“pressing, narrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *trenkʷ- (“to beat; pound; hew; press”). Cognate with Dutch drang, German Drang. Compare also German Gedränge (“throng”).",
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"ref": "1885, Gilbert and Sullivan, The Mikado, act 1",
"text": "Perhaps you suppose this throng / Can't keep it up all day long?",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1939, Ammianus Marcellinus, John Carew Rolfe, Ammianus Marcellinus, volume 1, Harvard University Press, page 463",
"text": "Here, mingled with the Persians, who were rushing to the higher ground with the same effort as ourselves, we remained motionless until sunrise of the next day, so crowded together that the bodies of the slain, held upright by the throng, could nowhere find room to fall, and that in front of me a soldier with his head cut in two, and split into equal halves by a powerful sword stroke, was so pressed on all sides that he stood erect like a stump.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2019 May 12, Lorenzo Tondo, “I have seen the tragedy of Mediterranean migrants. This ‘art’ makes me feel uneasy”, in The Guardian",
"text": "I imagine throngs of people – well-dressed, sipping spritzes – in front of a boat that, to me, is a coffin which held 700 people.",
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}
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"word": "multitude"
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"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "ambox",
"sense": "group of people",
"word": "ամբոխ"
},
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"roman": "bazmutʿyun",
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"word": "բազմություն"
},
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "tǎlpa",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "тълпа"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "množestvo",
"sense": "group of people",
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"neuter"
],
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},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"Algherese"
],
"word": "gent assai"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "munió"
},
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"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "group of people",
"word": "massa"
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{
"_dis1": "83 17",
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"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "group of people",
"word": "menigte"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "drukte"
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "group of people",
"word": "amaso"
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{
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"code": "eo",
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"word": "homamaso"
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{
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"word": "svarmo"
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{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "group of people",
"word": "ihmisjoukko"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "group of people",
"word": "väentungos"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "group of people",
"word": "väkijoukko"
},
{
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "essaim"
},
{
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "group of people",
"word": "foule"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "sdn",
"lang": "Gallurese",
"sense": "group of people",
"word": "gjntória"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Menschengewühl"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Gewühl"
},
{
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Gedränge"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Menschenmenge"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Menschentraube"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Traube"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "iumjō",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "𐌹𐌿𐌼𐌾𐍉"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "oulamós",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "οὐλαμός"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "plód"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "slua"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pulcadh"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "calca"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ressa"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "folla"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "multitūdō"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "turba"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "frequentia"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "caterva"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"neuter"
],
"word": "vulgus"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "group of people",
"word": "fola"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "molonada"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "jam'eyat",
"sense": "group of people",
"word": "جمعیت"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tłok"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tłum"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ciżba"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "turba"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "aglomeração"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mulțime"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "aglomerație"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "group of people",
"word": "stol"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "îmbulzeală"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "claie"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "îngrămădeală"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "turmă"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "tolpá",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "толпа́"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "tolčejá",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "толчея́"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kúča",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ку́ча"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "sc",
"lang": "Campidanese Sardinian",
"sense": "group of people",
"word": "stibbu"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "sc",
"lang": "Sardinian",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"Logudorese"
],
"word": "càtticu"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "sc",
"lang": "Sardinian",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"Logudorese"
],
"word": "lèrina"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "sc",
"lang": "Sardinian",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"Logudorese"
],
"word": "zentoriu"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "sdc",
"lang": "Sassarese",
"sense": "group of people",
"word": "attruppogliu"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "muchedumbre"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "gentío"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "group of people",
"word": "caterva"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "trängsel"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "mängd"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "nátovp",
"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "на́товп"
},
{
"_dis1": "83 17",
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "group of people",
"word": "menarunäd"
}
]
},
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "2001, Trivium (lyrics and music), “Amongst the Shadows & the Stones”",
"text": "Bloody corpses, broken bones reveal / A throng of clashes crushed, our nightmare sealed / Amongst the shadows and the stones",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A group of things; a host or swarm."
],
"id": "en-throng-en-noun-GlZJlU83",
"links": [
[
"host",
"host"
],
[
"swarm",
"swarm"
]
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "bazmutʿyun",
"sense": "group of things; host or swarm",
"word": "բազմություն"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "group of things; host or swarm",
"word": "zwerm"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "group of things; host or swarm",
"word": "amaso"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "group of things; host or swarm",
"word": "svarmo"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "group of things; host or swarm",
"word": "joukko"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "group of things; host or swarm",
"word": "lauma"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "group of things; host or swarm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "essaim"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "group of things; host or swarm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Schwarm"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "group of things; host or swarm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Ansammlung"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "group of things; host or swarm",
"word": "multitud"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "group of things; host or swarm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "eissam"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "group of things; host or swarm",
"word": "eissamat"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "group of things; host or swarm",
"word": "molon"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "group of things; host or swarm",
"word": "molonada"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "mnóžestvo",
"sense": "group of things; host or swarm",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "мно́жество"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "mássa",
"sense": "group of things; host or swarm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ма́сса"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kúča",
"sense": "group of things; host or swarm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ку́ча"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "group of things; host or swarm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "multitud"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "group of things; host or swarm",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "montón"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "group of things; host or swarm",
"word": "caterva"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "group of things; host or swarm",
"word": "hervidero"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "group of things; host or swarm",
"word": "turba"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "group of things; host or swarm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "recua"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "kupa",
"sense": "group of things; host or swarm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "купа"
},
{
"_dis1": "9 91",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "masa",
"sense": "group of things; host or swarm",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "маса"
}
]
}
],
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{
"code": "hy",
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"roman": "bazmutʿyun",
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"word": "բազմություն"
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
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"sense": "group of people",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "тълпа"
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{
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"neuter"
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{
"code": "ca",
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"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
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"word": "gent assai"
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{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "group of people",
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"feminine"
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{
"code": "nl",
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"word": "menigte"
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"code": "fi",
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"word": "ihmisjoukko"
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{
"code": "fi",
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"word": "väentungos"
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{
"code": "fi",
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"code": "fr",
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"code": "sdn",
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"word": "gjntória"
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"code": "de",
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"neuter"
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"code": "de",
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"code": "de",
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"feminine"
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"code": "got",
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"word": "𐌹𐌿𐌼𐌾𐍉"
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"code": "ga",
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{
"code": "ga",
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"code": "ga",
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{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "calca"
},
{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ressa"
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{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
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"word": "folla"
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{
"code": "la",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "la",
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"tags": [
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"word": "turba"
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{
"code": "la",
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"word": "frequentia"
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{
"code": "la",
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"sense": "group of people",
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{
"code": "oc",
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"sense": "group of people",
"word": "fola"
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{
"code": "oc",
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"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
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{
"code": "fa",
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"word": "جمعیت"
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{
"code": "pl",
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"word": "ciżba"
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "group of people",
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"feminine"
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"word": "turba"
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{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "aglomeração"
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{
"code": "ro",
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"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "ro",
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"word": "stol"
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{
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{
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{
"code": "ro",
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"sense": "group of people",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "turmă"
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{
"code": "ru",
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"code": "ru",
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"code": "sdc",
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{
"code": "es",
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"code": "uk",
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"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
},
{
"enpr": "thrŏng"
},
{
"enpr": "thrông"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "tǎlpja se",
"sense": "to crowd into a place, especially to fill it",
"word": "тълпя се"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to crowd into a place, especially to fill it",
"word": "蜂擁"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "fēngyōng",
"sense": "to crowd into a place, especially to fill it",
"word": "蜂拥"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to crowd into a place, especially to fill it",
"word": "samenstromen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to crowd into a place, especially to fill it",
"word": "ahtautua"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to crowd into a place, especially to fill it",
"word": "tungeksia"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to crowd into a place, especially to fill it",
"word": "täyttää"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to crowd into a place, especially to fill it",
"word": "plúch"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to crowd into a place, especially to fill it",
"word": "tāmuimui"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to crowd into a place, especially to fill it",
"word": "popō"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "tolpítʹsja",
"sense": "to crowd into a place, especially to fill it",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "толпи́ться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "stolpítʹsja",
"sense": "to crowd into a place, especially to fill it",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "столпи́ться"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to crowd into a place, especially to fill it",
"word": "abarrotar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to crowd into a place, especially to fill it",
"word": "llenar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to crowd into a place, especially to fill it",
"word": "tränga sig in"
},
{
"alt": "про натовп",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zapovnjuvaty",
"sense": "to crowd into a place, especially to fill it",
"word": "заповнювати"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "perepovnjuvaty",
"sense": "to crowd into a place, especially to fill it",
"word": "переповнювати"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to congregate",
"word": "vergaderen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to congregate",
"word": "tungeksia"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to congregate",
"word": "kerääntyä"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to congregate",
"word": "plódaigh"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to congregate",
"word": "popō"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to congregate",
"word": "congregarse"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to congregate",
"word": "reunirse"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "jurmytysja",
"sense": "to congregate",
"word": "юрмитися"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "jurbytysja",
"sense": "to congregate",
"word": "юрбитися"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "skupčuvatysja",
"sense": "to congregate",
"word": "скупчуватися"
}
],
"word": "throng"
}
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"English terms derived from Old English",
"English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Old English",
"English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"English terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
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"args": {
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"2": "enm",
"3": "throng"
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"expansion": "Middle English throng",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "thrang"
},
"expansion": "thrang",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "þrang"
},
"expansion": "Old English þrang",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "ġeþrang",
"3": "",
"4": "crowd, press, tumult"
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"name": "m"
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"2": "gem-pro",
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"name": "inh"
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{
"args": {
"1": "gem-pro",
"2": "*þrangwō",
"3": "",
"4": "throng"
},
"expansion": "*þrangwō (“throng”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "gem-pro",
"2": "*þrangwaz",
"3": "",
"4": "pressing, narrow"
},
"expansion": "*þrangwaz (“pressing, narrow”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*trenkʷ-",
"4": "",
"5": "to beat; pound; hew; press"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *trenkʷ- (“to beat; pound; hew; press”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "drang"
},
"expansion": "Dutch drang",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "Drang"
},
"expansion": "German Drang",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "Gedränge",
"t": "throng"
},
"expansion": "German Gedränge (“throng”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English throng, thrang, from Old English þrang, ġeþrang (“crowd, press, tumult”), from Proto-Germanic *þrangwą, *þrangwō (“throng”), from *þrangwaz (“pressing, narrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *trenkʷ- (“to beat; pound; hew; press”). Cognate with Dutch drang, German Drang. Compare also German Gedränge (“throng”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more throng",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most throng",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
"expansion": "throng (comparative more throng, superlative most throng)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Northern England English",
"Scottish English"
],
"glosses": [
"Filled with persons or objects; crowded."
],
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"Filled",
"filled#Adjective"
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"raw_glosses": [
"(Northern England, Scotland) Filled with persons or objects; crowded."
],
"tags": [
"Northern-England",
"Scotland"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Northern England English",
"Scottish English"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1903, Samuel Butler, chapter 59, in The Way of All Flesh",
"text": "Mr Shaw was very civil; he said he was rather throng just now, but if Ernest did not mind the sound of hammering he should be very glad of a talk with him.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1992, Alasdair Gray, Poor Things, Bloomsbury, published 2002, page 200",
"text": "[P]eople were having holidays all round the world, though the Glasgow shops and offices and factories were as throng with business as ever.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Busy; hurried."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Northern England, Scotland) Busy; hurried."
],
"tags": [
"Northern-England",
"Scotland"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/θɹɒŋ/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/θɹɔŋ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/θɹɑŋ/",
"tags": [
"cot-caught-merger"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɒŋ"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-throng.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/fd/En-us-throng.ogg/En-us-throng.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/En-us-throng.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
},
{
"enpr": "thrŏng"
},
{
"enpr": "thrông"
}
],
"word": "throng"
}
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