Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large group or crowd; a swarm: synonym: crowd.
- noun A nomadic Mongol or Turkic tribe.
- noun A nomadic tribe or group.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To live in hordes; huddle together like the members of a migratory tribe: usually followed by together.
- noun A tribe or troop of Asiatic nomads dwelling in tents or wagons, and migrating from place to place to procure pasturage for their cattle, or for war or plunder.
- noun Hence Any clan or troop; a gang; a migratory crew; a multitude.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude.
- noun Any large group of people or animals, especially one wandering or moving about.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A wandering
troop organg ; especially, aclan ortribe of anomadic people (originally Tatars) migrating from place to place for the sake ofpasturage ,plunder , etc.; a predatorymultitude . - noun A
large number of people.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a nomadic community
- noun a vast multitude
- noun a moving crowd
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The Zulus approach via random chit draw — sometimes one space, sometimes two or three - which can be a very hairy reminder of what an attack by a screaming horde is like.
Zulus on the Ramparts! by Victory Point Games « Third Point of Singularity 2009
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But the real gem in this treasure horde, is this killer Conan board game from around the same period.
Conan in Brazil! Part 1 Reis O'Brien 2010
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But – the rest of the teabagging horde is downright delusional.
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In Blood Meridian, a Western of sorts, Cormac McCarthy writes stuff like: “a horde from a hell more horrible yet than the brimstone land of christian reckoning, screeching and yammering and clothed in smoke like those vaporous beings in regions beyond right knowing where the eye wanders and the lip jerks and drools.”
April 2008 2008
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In Blood Meridian, a Western of sorts, Cormac McCarthy writes stuff like: “a horde from a hell more horrible yet than the brimstone land of christian reckoning, screeching and yammering and clothed in smoke like those vaporous beings in regions beyond right knowing where the eye wanders and the lip jerks and drools.”
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| Reply horde is evil. and no blabbering make-believe ‘in fact it is not evil’ crap – horde IS evil.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Guild Update: The Die Has Certainly Been Cast 2007
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A horde is simply an aggregation of multiple small groups and can be dealt with piecemeal as a result.
World Fantasy Convention Report Lou Anders 2006
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I love that this adventurous horde is up for any type of cuisine and will try pretty much anything, even the odd sounding stuff.
You gonna eat that? Random musings on food and life in Orange County, California » 2005 » November 2005
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I love that this adventurous horde is up for any type of cuisine and will try pretty much anything, even the odd sounding stuff.
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Constantinople was again besieged, this time by a horde from the Russian wilderness under the chiefs Dir and Askold.
The Prince of India — Volume 01 Lewis Wallace 1866
chained_bear commented on the word horde
How many boards would the Mongols hoard, if the Mongol hordes got bored?
February 13, 2007