Horde

Quick meaning: Horde is a noun meaning A large number of people or things.

Meaning

A large number of people or things.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To travel en masse; to flock.
2. 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.

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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.

Word Forms

• hordes
• hording
• hordeing
• horded

Synonyms for horde

Depending on context, synonyms include host, swarm, drove, legion.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include host, legion, drove, swarm, mob, throng.

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