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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.
Horde definition: a large group, multitude, number, etc.; a mass or crowd. See examples of HORDE used in a sentence.
The noun horde is not for the sedate — the word typically is used to describe a group that is in motion, maybe even a little unruly, such as a horde of fans pursuing a film star or a horde of ants invading a picnic.
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.
The meaning of HORDE is a political subdivision of central Asian nomads. How to use horde in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Horde.
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.
horde. noun. /hɔːd/. /hɔːrd/. (sometimes disapproving) a large crowd of people. There are always hordes of tourists here in the summer. in hordes Football fans turned up in hordes. He could see the infantry advancing in hordes across the open ground.
Origin of Horde. Ultimately ( via German Horde) (Polish horda) ( and kindred words in other languages of central Europe, with initial h- , of obscure origin) from Ukrainian orda tribe or army of Mongols and Turkic peoples (as the Golden Horde) from North-Western Turkic ordï encampment, residence, court from Old Turkic ordu.
1. a vast crowd; throng; mob. 2. (Anthropology & Ethnology) a local group of people in a nomadic society. 3. (Anthropology & Ethnology) a nomadic group of people, esp an Asiatic group. 4. (Zoology) a large moving mass of animals, esp insects. vb. ( intr) to form, move in, or live in a horde.
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) Translations of horde. in Chinese (Traditional) （人）群… See more. in Chinese (Simplified) （人）群… See more. in Spanish. multitud, horda, horda (histórico)… See more. in Portuguese.
