| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. A number of persons who have come or been gathered together: assemblage, assembly, body, company, conclave, conference, congregation, congress, convention, convocation, gathering, group, meeting, muster, troop. Informal : get-together. See COLLECT. 2. A group of people sharing an interest, activity, or achievement: circle, group, set2. See GROUP. 3. The common people: common (used in plural), commonality, commonalty, commoner (used in plural), hoi polloi, mass (used in plural), mob, pleb (used in plural), plebeian (used in plural), populace, public, ruck1, third estate. See OVER. 4. A particular social group: circle, clique, coterie, set2. Informal : bunch, gang. See GROUP. 5. A very large number of things grouped together: army, cloud, drove, flock, horde, host, legion, mass, mob, multitude, ruck1, score (used in plural), swarm, throng. See BIG, GROUP. 6. An enormous number of persons gathered together: crush, drove, flock, horde, mass, mob, multitude, press, ruck1, swarm, throng. See BIG, GROUP. | | VERB: | 1. To act on with a steady pushing force: crush, press. See PUSH. 2. To congregate, as around a person: flock, mob, press, throng. See COLLECT, TIGHTEN. 3. To fill to excess by compressing or squeezing tightly: cram, jam, load, mob, pack, stuff. Informal : jam-pack. See FULL, TIGHTEN.
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