swarm
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- noun
- /swɔrm/
- The farmer noticed a swarm of locusts approaching his crops.
- a swarm of bees
- a swarm of insects
- move in swarms
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Watch on YouTubeA library humming like a swarm of gnats.
- A library humming like a swarm of gnats.
- Now Biagion's first theory was maybe it's a swarm of giant comets.
- And all around him, he had he had a swarm of Taliban fighters.
- What happened was some rogue bees came into the swarm that was on my face.
- She's the trooper who surrounded her like a swarm of bees.
- Because while they're meteors, every night, several times a year there are swarms of meteors.
- And the most likely interpretation is that it's a swarm of microscopic particles which have no electric charge.
- We see this with bees and Candyman and in the swarm.
- And believe it or not, we actually had a fourth swarm and it's behind you way back there.
Examples
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We made contact with a whole swarm of Messerschmitts.
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Swarms of giant bees filled the air.
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All right, look at that whole swarm of them just down here.
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My goal is to have a swarm of fish all around me.
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And like, it gets lost in the swarm of bees, right?
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Like a swarm of locusts.
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The ship was passing through a meteor swarm when its shields suddenly failed.
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"Pellaeon could see the fighters now, coming at them like a swarm of angry insects."
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Swarms of United States aircraft fly in formation overhead as the ceremony ends.
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Along Robertson Boulevard in Los Angeles, businesses have to deal with daily swarms of paparazzi.
Academic text (2013)
Synonyms
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1.0
Many people or things are close together in one place
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A large group of the same kind of animals that stay or move together
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A large group of small things moving together in the air
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3.4
A large moving group of people or animals that seems hard to control and overwhelming
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3.5
A large group of animals or people moving together
Compounds
A large group of very small, almost invisible biting insects that cause itchy bites
How Large
Surface Forms
Etymology
Swarm comes from an old Germanic word that meant 'move together in a crowd', and you can see the same idea in German Schwarm and Dutch zwerm. So a swarm is a large, busy group of insects, people, or things moving together.