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- Dictionaryhorde/hɔːd/
noun
- 1. a large group of people: derogatory "a horde of beery rugby fans"
- 2. a small loosely knit social group typically consisting of about five families.
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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 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
noun [ C ] uk / hɔːd / us. Add to word list. 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.
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