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HORDE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does horde mean?
• HORDE (noun)
The noun HORDE has 3 senses:
1. a vast multitude
2. a nomadic community
3. a moving crowd
Familiarity information: HORDE used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A vast multitude
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("horde" is a kind of...):
concourse; multitude; throng (a large gathering of people)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A nomadic community
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("horde" is a kind of...):
community (a group of people living in a particular local area)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "horde"):
Golden Horde (a Mongolian army that swept over eastern Europe in the 13th century)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A moving crowd
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("horde" is a kind of...):
crowd (a large number of things or people considered together)
Context examples
He could not encounter that howling horde with his tail and hind-quarters.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
In old days there were stirring times, when the Austrian and the Hungarian came up in hordes, and the patriots went out to meet them—men and women, the aged and the children too—and waited their coming on the rocks above the passes, that they might sweep destruction on them with their artificial avalanches.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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