horde

UK /hɔːd/ US /hɔːd/

noun 2verb 1

Definitions

noun

A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people (originally Tatars) migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude.

A large number of people or things.

We were beset by a horde of street vendors who thought we were tourists and would buy their cheap souvenirs.

It is true, the more progressive members of our horde lived in the caves above the river.

verb

to travel en masse, to flock

"What wouldst thou insinuate?" replied Elmuton, sarcastically; “has he not been watched, and secretly discovered hordeing with Christians?

Collocations

ADJ.

angry, colonial, fierce, golden, hideous, repressed

VERB + HORDE

attacked, belongs, explode, surrounded

HORDE + NOUN

blood, fangirls, havoc, savages, street, toddlers, vendors

PREP.

after, in, into

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a vast multitude

noun — a moving crowd

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

We were beset by a horde of street vendors who thought we were tourists and would buy their cheap souvenirs.

Wiktionary

It is true, the more progressive members of our horde lived in the caves above the river.

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And so Tarzan of the Apes dropped lightly to the turf into the midst of the fierce and hideous horde—he had completed the cycle of evolution, and had returned to be once again a brute among brutes.

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"What wouldst thou insinuate?" replied Elmuton, sarcastically; “has he not been watched, and secretly discovered hordeing with Christians?

Wiktionary

Tom was surrounded by a horde of screaming fangirls.

Tatoeba · #2951422

The Golden Horde wreaked havoc and death all around Eurasia.

Tatoeba · #3707464

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