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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.
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.
To hoard is to squirrel stuff away, like gold bricks or candy wrappers. A horde is a crowd of people, usually, but it can also be a gang of mosquitoes, robots, or rabid zombie kittens. Use the word horde to describe a large crowd: “A horde of people followed the pop star as he left the airport in Helsinki.”.
Check pronunciation: horde. Definition of horde noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
A large, moving crowd or throng; swarm. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. Any wandering tribe or group. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. Synonyms: cloud. throng. score. ruck. multitude. mob. mass. host. flock. crowd. legion. army. drove.
horde. noun [ C ] uk / hɔːd / us. Add to word list Add to word list. a large group of people: There was a horde of tourists outside Buckingham Palace. (Definition of horde from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Horde definition: a large group, multitude, number, etc.; a mass or crowd. See examples of HORDE used in a sentence.
3 days ago · 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. verb. 5. (intransitive) to form, move in, or live in a horde. USAGE Horde is sometimes wrongly written where hoard is meant: a hoard (not horde) of gold coins.
