From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishhordehorde /hɔːd $ hɔːrd/ noun [countable]CROWDa large crowd moving in a noisyuncontrolled wayhorde of
There were hordes of people inside the station.► see thesaurus at groupExamples from the Corpushorde• Since then, people say, the beast, or, possibly, a horde of them, has been moving fast.• Securityguards held hordes at bay, while men with binoculars eyed the bevy from vans.• Her images of that horde of ribaldworkmen looked positively endearing next to this man.• The quantities can be adjusted to feed the hordes.• According to Imperial records the hordegathered at the coast and began to construct a hugefleet.• Hideousmonsters, in their hordes.• Imagine all the trouble hordes of tots and teenagers can get into with nothing to do all day but hang around.horde of• New York is overrun by hordes oftourists in the summer.Originhorde(1500-1600)French and German, from Polishhorda
