THRONGED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thronged mean? 

• THRONGED (adjective)
  The adjective THRONGED has 1 sense:

1. filled with great numbers crowded together

  Familiarity information: THRONGED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THRONGED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Filled with great numbers crowded together

Context example:

I try to avoid the thronged streets and stores just before Christmas

Similar:

crowded (overfilled or compacted or concentrated)

 Context examples 

The days were thronged with experience for White Fang.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The known and the unknown were commingled in the dream-pageant that thronged his vision.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

MY uncle’s impatience would not suffer him to wait for the slow rotation which would bring us to the door, but he flung the reins and a crown-piece to one of the rough fellows who thronged the side-walk, and pushing his way vigorously through the crowd, he made for the entrance.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The openings of these huts and the branches of the trees were thronged with a dense mob of ape-people, whom from their size I took to be the females and infants of the tribe.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From the distant camp of Dax, too, and from Blaye, Bourge, Libourne, St. Emilion, Castillon, St. Macaire, Cardillac, Ryons, and all the cluster of flourishing towns which look upon Bordeaux as their mother, there thronged an unceasing stream of horsemen and of footmen, all converging upon the great city.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These visions came out of the actions and sensations of the past, out of things and events and books of yesterday and last week—a countless host of apparitions that, waking or sleeping, forever thronged his mind.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)