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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.
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.
Definition of horde noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
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.
horde (noun) horde / ˈ hoɚd/ noun. plural hordes. Britannica Dictionary definition of HORDE. [count] usually disapproving. : a large group of people. A horde of tourists entered the museum. Hordes of reporters were shouting questions. Do not confuse horde with hoard.
If you describe a crowd of people as a horde, you mean that the crowd is very large and excited and, often, rather frightening or unpleasant. [...]
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)
