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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024horde /hɔrd/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- a large group, number, or crowd:hordes of grasshoppers.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024horde (hôrd, hōrd),USA pronunciation n., v., hord•ed, hord•ing. n. - a large group, multitude, number, etc.;
a mass or crowd:a horde of tourists. - Anthropologya tribe or troop of Asian nomads.
- Anthropologyany nomadic group.
- a moving pack or swarm of animals:A horde of mosquitoes invaded the camp.
v.i. - to gather in a horde:The prisoners horded together in the compound.
- Turkic ordu, orda royal residence or camp (later, any military encampment, army); compare Urdu
- Ukrainian dialect, dialectal gordá, Ukrainian ordá, Old Russian (origin, originally in Zolotaya orda the Golden Horde), via Mongolian or directly
- earlier also hord, horda Czech, Polish horda 1545–55
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged mob, herd, throng.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: horde /hɔːd/ n - a vast crowd; throng; mob
- a nomadic group of people, esp an Asiatic group
- a large moving mass of animals, esp insects
Etymology: 16th Century: from Polish horda, from Turkish ordū camp; compare Urdu |