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- DictionaryHorde/hôrd/
noun
- 1. a large group of people: derogatory "he was surrounded by a horde of tormenting relatives"
- 2. a loosely knit small social group typically consisting of about five families.
1. a. : a political subdivision of central Asian nomads. b. : a people or tribe of nomadic life. 2. : a large unorganized group of individuals : a teeming crowd or throng. hordes of peasants. Synonyms. army. bike [ chiefly Scottish] cram. crowd. crush. drove. flock. herd. host. legion. mass.
noun. a large group, multitude, number, etc.; a mass or crowd: a horde of tourists. Synonyms: throng, herd, mob. a tribe or troop of Asian nomads. any nomadic group. a moving pack or swarm of animals: A horde of mosquitoes invaded the camp.
noun. often disapproving uk / hɔːd / us / hɔːrd / Add to word list. [ C ] a large group of people: hordes of Hordes of students on bikes made crossing the road difficult. in their hordes UK informal. in very great numbers: When they heard the concert was free, they came in their hordes.
noun. often disapproving us / hɔːrd / uk / hɔːd / Add to word list. [ C ] a large group of people: hordes of Hordes of students on bikes made crossing the road difficult. in their hordes UK informal. in very great numbers: When they heard the concert was free, they came in their hordes.
A horde is a crowd of people, usually, but it can also be a gang of mosquitoes, robots, or rabid zombie kittens. Continue reading...
noun. 1. a vast crowd; throng; mob. 2. a local group of people in a nomadic society. 3. a nomadic group of people, esp an Asiatic group. 4. a large moving mass of animals, esp insects.
noun. /hɔːd/. /hɔːrd/. (sometimes disapproving) a large crowd of people. There are always hordes of tourists here in the summer. in hordes Football fans turned up in hordes. He could see the infantry advancing in hordes across the open ground. The elves defeated a huge horde of goblins.
1. a vast crowd; throng; mob. 2. (Anthropology & Ethnology) a local group of people in a nomadic society. 3. (Anthropology & Ethnology) a nomadic group of people, esp an Asiatic group. 4. (Zoology) a large moving mass of animals, esp insects. vb. ( intr) to form, move in, or live in a horde.
Verb. Filter. noun. hordes. A nomadic tribe or clan of Mongols. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. A large, moving crowd or throng; swarm. Webster's New World.
horde noun. Meaning & use. 1.a. 1555–. Among the Mongol and Turkic peoples of Central Asia: an affiliation of a number of nomadic families or communities, typically dwelling in a large portable encampment, esp. one ruled by a khan and having a military function.
