horde
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3.4
- noun
- /hɔrd/
- There's a horde of them out there.
- hordes of people
- tourist hordes
- horde of zombies
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Watch on YouTubeThey started leaving first in trickles, then in hordes.
- They started leaving first in trickles, then in hordes.
- And then I was excoriated by a horde of Twitter accounts.
- And where any day the fascist hordes could have landed on the southern coast, we really have not faced a crisis like this.
- And so I never had a sense of how quickly a horde of people could become terrifyingly dangerous.
- The same people, But that's there's just hordes of these people.
Examples
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But we cannot allow hordes to come through.
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We have security because you might be dealing with a gang, a horde, a crowd.
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Yet as he looked out across the horde, he could also sense their fear.
Fiction book (1990) -
And so I never had a sense of how quickly a horde of people could become terrifyingly dangerous.
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There's a horde of men after you.
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So Mr. Balzano was one of the horde of immigrants who had come to this town.
Fiction book (1991) -
Yeah, pretty soon there'll be hordes of people coming out this way.
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They even built an overflow stage to accommodate the hordes of people that Trump was expecting.
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Buses are jammed with hordes of people oozing out of windows and perched upon the roofs.
Academic text (1992) -
The festival drew a horde of excited fans eager to see their favorite band perform live.
Synonyms
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1.0
Many people or things are close together in one place
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1.0
A group of animals or people who act together
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1.0
A large group of people organized to do one job
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9.9
A very large group of people, often soldiers
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3.4
A large group of insects or people moving together without control
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5.1
A very large number of people or things
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2.7
A group of people or animals that move together in an orderly way
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4.6
A large group of people gathered together
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8.8
A group of people standing or moving close together and acting as one
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3.5
A large group of animals or people moving together
Compounds
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9.9
A Mongol army that invaded and ruled parts of eastern Europe and Russia in the 1200s and 1300s
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Etymology
Horde comes from a Central Asian word ordu that meant 'camp' or 'army' and named groups who moved together. So today horde means a large, often overwhelming group moving together.