horden.

Brit.

/hɔːd/, U.S.

/hɔrd/

Forms:

α. 1500s 1700s– orda, 1500s–1700s horda.

β. 1500s hoorde, 1500s–1700s hord, 1600s–1700s hoord, 1600s– horde.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin horda.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin orda (later also horda: see below) encampment of the Mongol ruler, also the ruler's tent (1247 in the source translated in quot. 1598¹ at sense 1a), a group of nomadic Mongol or Turkic peoples, a khanate or its subdivision (1525 or earlier), partly < a Turkic language (compare Old Uighur ordu , ordo , Orkhon Turkic ordo royal residence (8th cent.)), and partly < Middle Mongolian ordo , orda palace, royal encampment, royal tent (itself < Turkic). Compare ordu n. and Urdu n.For other Turkic forms that probably contributed to the spread of the word in various Western and Eastern European languages, compare Chaghatai ordu royal encampment, royal residence (15th cent.; also in form orda, perhaps showing influence of Middle Mongolian), Ottoman Turkish ordu royal camp, military camp, army (14th cent.; Turkish ordu), Tatar orda royal residence, royal encampment. Compare ( < a Turkic language) Old Russian, Russian orda central encampment of the khanate (1242), large association of nomadic groups ruled by a khan (1390), group of nomadic people (15th cent.), army, multitude of hostile people (16th cent.); ( < Chaghatai or Mongolian) Spanish †ordo encampment (c1406); and also ( < post-classical Latin) German Horde a group of nomadic Mongol or Turkic peoples (1429 in a letter from Duke Vytautas, with reference to the Golden Horde), army (16th cent.), crowd, mob (17th cent.), Polish orda, horda a group of nomadic Mongol or Turkic peoples (1492; in later use also ‘crowd’), Italian orda, †horda a group of nomadic people (1520), multitude (1693), French horde a group of nomadic Mongol or Turkic peoples (1559), a large group of animals (1669), any group of nomadic people (1669), a disorderly group, rabble (1767), crowd (1769), a large number of things (1848), Spanish horda group of nomadic Mongol or Turkic peoples (1586). The ultimate origin of the forms in h- (attested earliest in 1429 in German, and from 1509 in post-classical Latin in a Polish source) is unknown. Compare the following earlier example where the Turkic or Mongolian word (transmitted via post-classical Latin) is treated as a place name:?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 83 Here prince þat gouerneth þat contree þat þei clepen Batho, duelleth at the cytee of Orda.

a. Among the Mongol and Turkic peoples of Central Asia: an affiliation of a number of nomadic families or communities, typically dwelling in a large portable encampment, esp. one ruled by a khan and having a military function. Formerly also: †such an encampment; (also) †the tent of the khan or ruler within it (obsolete). Cf. ordu n. Now historical. See also Golden Horde n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > race > nomads > [noun] > types of nomads

nomadesa1544

horde1555

Strandlooper1935

1555 R. Eden tr. P. Giovio Libellus de legatione Basilii in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 280^v Tartares are diuided by companies which they caule Hordas [L. Hordas]..they consiste of innumerable Hordas.

1589 A. Jenkinson in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations ii. 348 The Nagayans..were diuided into diuers companies called Hords.

1598 R. Hakluyt tr. J. de Plano Carpini in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. xxiv. 66 It is the Orda or court of his fa[t]her which hee inhabiteth, and one of his wiues beareth rule there.

1598 R. Hakluyt tr. J. de Plano Carpini in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. xxv. 67 Because we had not as yet seene the Emperour, they would not inuite vs nor admit vs into his Orda [L. ad ordam], but caused good attendance and entertainement, after the Tartars fashion, to be giuen vnto vs in our owne tent.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 421 Stayed with him in his hord (which consisted of about 1000 housholds of a kindred).

1759 Mod. Part Universal Hist. V. vi. iii. 264 Many of the ordas had encamped there, but had returned as soon as sensible of Timûr's approach.

1799 W. Tooke View Russ. Empire II. 78 The Kirghises..have always been divided into three hordes, the great, the middle and the little hordes.

1854 J. H. Newman Lect. Hist. Turks ii. i. 63 The horde of Chozars, as this Turkish tribe was called,..transported their tents..into Georgia.

2016 G. Ubiria Soviet Nation-building in Central Asia ii. 37 Both the ‘Kazakh’ Khanate and the hordes were a type of multilevel tribal confederacies, the political unity of which largely depended on the existence of either a powerful Khan or a common security threat.

b. More generally: any similar group among other nomadic peoples. Chiefly historical, or in fictional worlds.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > race > nomads > [noun]

nomadesa1544

Scenite1575

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horde1617

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1617 S. Purchas Pilgrimage (ed. 3) viii. iii. 925 One of our men went on land to their Tents, one of theirs remayning for hostage, in which Tents they liued by hoords, men, women, and children.

1695 W. Temple Introd. Hist. Eng. Introd. Such were the Hords among the Goths, the Clans in Scotland, and Septs in Ireland.

1840 T. Arnold Hist. Rome II. xxxiii. 320 The Samnite plans were, moreover, unexpectedly furthered by a new inroad of the Gauls; new hordes had lately arrived from beyond the Alps.

1921 Motor Oct. 20 This was the historic route followed by the Apache hordes in their descents upon the far-flung settlements of the encroaching whites.

2007 N.Y. Times Mag. (Nexis) 8 Apr. 28 Buljan found comfort in the sukkah, in this open-air proof of the affinity between his own fathers and those of the people (by the account of their own book once a wandering horde of tent dwellers and cattle raiders) whose faith they had adopted.

c. Cultural Anthropology. In traditional societies: a basic social division typically consisting of a small number of families living as a loosely connected group. Now rare.Common in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Cf. primal horde n. at primal adj. and n. Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > clan > [noun]

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blooda1599

horde1826

gens1855

1826 Eclectic Rev. Oct. 305 They live distributed in hordes of forty or fifty under a family government, recognising a common chief only at the moment of making war upon their neighbours.

1865 J. F. McLennan Primitive Marriage viii. 233 So far as the system of infanticide allowed, the hordes contained young men and women accounted of different stocks, who might intermarry consistently with exogamy.

1918 A. A. Brill tr. S. Freud Totem & Taboo iv. 208 Man, too, lived originally in small hordes in which the jealousy of the oldest and strongest male prevented promiscuity.

1923 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 53 428 [With reference to the Wangaaypuwan people of New South Wales.] It is therefore impossible to find out for certain whether the horde was or was not a clan, i.e., whether it consisted in all instances of persons related to one another in one direct line, or whether it might include persons of more than one line of descent.

2012 J. Goody in B. Isakhan & S. Stockwell Edinb. Compan. Hist. Democracy p. xi The next level of complexity beyond the horde has been seen, in political anthropology, as the acephalous society, which again has no overall leadership.

a. Chiefly depreciative. A large group of people, esp. one which is disorganized, disorderly, or threatening; a rabble, a crowd, a throng. Also more loosely (chiefly in plural): a large number of people (of a specified type).robber horde, victim horde: see the first element.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > of people or animals > regarded as a whole or a body of people gathered

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1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage iv. xiii. 359 Pillars of Stone, which sometimes were Hoords of Men and Beasts feeding, transformed by diuine power.

1796 E. Burke Two Lett. Peace Regicide Directory France i. 23 I hardly shall allow..that with the hord of Regicides we could..obtain any thing at all deserving the name of peace.

1888 H. E. Scudder in Atlantic Monthly Aug. 227/1 This great horde of young readers in America has created a large number of special writers for the young.

1951 E. Paul Springtime in Paris (U.K. ed.) ii. 24 There were a few North Americans, hordes of English, many South Americans, and a few Near-Easterners.

2008 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 20 July ar4 The teeming hordes of tourists who descend on Manhattan in the summer rarely stray far from Times Square in search of theater.

b. A large (moving) group of animals, typically one considered as dangerous or destructive.locust horde, rat horde: see the first element.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > animals collectively > [noun] > swarm

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1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage iv. xiii. 359 Pillars of Stone, which sometimes were Hoords of Men and Beasts feeding, transformed by diuine power.

1797 J. Fox Santa-Maria II. 67 Which would you choose, hen-hearted poltroon, to be minced in pieces by a banditti, or nibbled to atoms by a horde of wild beasts?

1880 Amer. Naturalist 14 804 By collecting, in winter, these caterpillars, mummified and filled with spores, they can be used in destroying the hordes of caterpillars of the next summer.

1935 Advertiser (Adelaide) 13 Aug. 14/5 A ravening horde of rabbits laid waste a great expanse of pasture land.

2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 6 July viii. 12/1 Hordes of mosquitoes greeted us as we unloaded.

c. A large amount, number, or quantity of a thing or things. Now often in plural: masses, loads.In quot. as part of an extended metaphor with reference to sense 2b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > (a) great quantity or amount

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the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [noun] > a large number or multitude

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1860 ‘G. F. Preston’ Ballads & Metrical Sketches 216 Chase away the horde Of guilt inspired, unholy meditations.

1908 R. D. Ware In Woods & on Shore 239 He..rowed, shivering, through the chilly darkness to a coffin-shaped box anchored in a waste of waters in the middle of a horde of bobbing, wooden decoys.

1985 Times 19 Dec. 17/2 After putting a horde of firms through one of the most hard-fought ‘beauty contests’ the City has seen, Marks and Spencer has appointed its new stockbrokers.

2014 J. A. Boone Homoerotics of Orientalism vii. 312 By the era of European travel to these regions, it is clear that hordes of book manuscripts were available for viewing and sale.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	horde
释义	horden. Brit. /hɔːd/, U.S. /hɔrd/ Forms: α. 1500s 1700s– orda, 1500s–1700s horda. β. 1500s hoorde, 1500s–1700s hord, 1600s–1700s hoord, 1600s– horde. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin horda. Etymology: < post-classical Latin orda (later also horda: see below) encampment of the Mongol ruler, also the ruler's tent (1247 in the source translated in quot. 1598¹ at sense 1a), a group of nomadic Mongol or Turkic peoples, a khanate or its subdivision (1525 or earlier), partly < a Turkic language (compare Old Uighur ordu , ordo , Orkhon Turkic ordo royal residence (8th cent.)), and partly < Middle Mongolian ordo , orda palace, royal encampment, royal tent (itself < Turkic). Compare ordu n. and Urdu n.For other Turkic forms that probably contributed to the spread of the word in various Western and Eastern European languages, compare Chaghatai ordu royal encampment, royal residence (15th cent.; also in form orda, perhaps showing influence of Middle Mongolian), Ottoman Turkish ordu royal camp, military camp, army (14th cent.; Turkish ordu), Tatar orda royal residence, royal encampment. Compare ( < a Turkic language) Old Russian, Russian orda central encampment of the khanate (1242), large association of nomadic groups ruled by a khan (1390), group of nomadic people (15th cent.), army, multitude of hostile people (16th cent.); ( < Chaghatai or Mongolian) Spanish †ordo encampment (c1406); and also ( < post-classical Latin) German Horde a group of nomadic Mongol or Turkic peoples (1429 in a letter from Duke Vytautas, with reference to the Golden Horde), army (16th cent.), crowd, mob (17th cent.), Polish orda, horda a group of nomadic Mongol or Turkic peoples (1492; in later use also ‘crowd’), Italian orda, †horda a group of nomadic people (1520), multitude (1693), French horde a group of nomadic Mongol or Turkic peoples (1559), a large group of animals (1669), any group of nomadic people (1669), a disorderly group, rabble (1767), crowd (1769), a large number of things (1848), Spanish horda group of nomadic Mongol or Turkic peoples (1586). The ultimate origin of the forms in h- (attested earliest in 1429 in German, and from 1509 in post-classical Latin in a Polish source) is unknown. Compare the following earlier example where the Turkic or Mongolian word (transmitted via post-classical Latin) is treated as a place name:?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 83 Here prince þat gouerneth þat contree þat þei clepen Batho, duelleth at the cytee of Orda. 1. a. Among the Mongol and Turkic peoples of Central Asia: an affiliation of a number of nomadic families or communities, typically dwelling in a large portable encampment, esp. one ruled by a khan and having a military function. Formerly also: †such an encampment; (also) †the tent of the khan or ruler within it (obsolete). Cf. ordu n. Now historical. See also Golden Horde n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > race > nomads > [noun] > types of nomads nomadesa1544 horde1555 Strandlooper1935 1555 R. Eden tr. P. Giovio Libellus de legatione Basilii in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 280^v Tartares are diuided by companies which they caule Hordas [L. Hordas]..they consiste of innumerable Hordas. 1589 A. Jenkinson in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations ii. 348 The Nagayans..were diuided into diuers companies called Hords. 1598 R. Hakluyt tr. J. de Plano Carpini in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. xxiv. 66 It is the Orda or court of his fa[t]her which hee inhabiteth, and one of his wiues beareth rule there. 1598 R. Hakluyt tr. J. de Plano Carpini in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. xxv. 67 Because we had not as yet seene the Emperour, they would not inuite vs nor admit vs into his Orda [L. ad ordam], but caused good attendance and entertainement, after the Tartars fashion, to be giuen vnto vs in our owne tent. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 421 Stayed with him in his hord (which consisted of about 1000 housholds of a kindred). 1759 Mod. Part Universal Hist. V. vi. iii. 264 Many of the ordas had encamped there, but had returned as soon as sensible of Timûr's approach. 1799 W. Tooke View Russ. Empire II. 78 The Kirghises..have always been divided into three hordes, the great, the middle and the little hordes. 1854 J. H. Newman Lect. Hist. Turks ii. i. 63 The horde of Chozars, as this Turkish tribe was called,..transported their tents..into Georgia. 2016 G. Ubiria Soviet Nation-building in Central Asia ii. 37 Both the ‘Kazakh’ Khanate and the hordes were a type of multilevel tribal confederacies, the political unity of which largely depended on the existence of either a powerful Khan or a common security threat. b. More generally: any similar group among other nomadic peoples. Chiefly historical, or in fictional worlds. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > race > nomads > [noun] nomadesa1544 Scenite1575 nomad1587 horde1617 nomade1798 1617 S. Purchas Pilgrimage (ed. 3) viii. iii. 925 One of our men went on land to their Tents, one of theirs remayning for hostage, in which Tents they liued by hoords, men, women, and children. 1695 W. Temple Introd. Hist. Eng. Introd. Such were the Hords among the Goths, the Clans in Scotland, and Septs in Ireland. 1840 T. Arnold Hist. Rome II. xxxiii. 320 The Samnite plans were, moreover, unexpectedly furthered by a new inroad of the Gauls; new hordes had lately arrived from beyond the Alps. 1921 Motor Oct. 20 This was the historic route followed by the Apache hordes in their descents upon the far-flung settlements of the encroaching whites. 2007 N.Y. Times Mag. (Nexis) 8 Apr. 28 Buljan found comfort in the sukkah, in this open-air proof of the affinity between his own fathers and those of the people (by the account of their own book once a wandering horde of tent dwellers and cattle raiders) whose faith they had adopted. c. Cultural Anthropology. In traditional societies: a basic social division typically consisting of a small number of families living as a loosely connected group. Now rare.Common in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Cf. primal horde n. at primal adj. and n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > clan > [noun] surname1455 sept1518 clana1522 gentility1583 blooda1599 horde1826 gens1855 1826 Eclectic Rev. Oct. 305 They live distributed in hordes of forty or fifty under a family government, recognising a common chief only at the moment of making war upon their neighbours. 1865 J. F. McLennan Primitive Marriage viii. 233 So far as the system of infanticide allowed, the hordes contained young men and women accounted of different stocks, who might intermarry consistently with exogamy. 1918 A. A. Brill tr. S. Freud Totem & Taboo iv. 208 Man, too, lived originally in small hordes in which the jealousy of the oldest and strongest male prevented promiscuity. 1923 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 53 428 [With reference to the Wangaaypuwan people of New South Wales.] It is therefore impossible to find out for certain whether the horde was or was not a clan, i.e., whether it consisted in all instances of persons related to one another in one direct line, or whether it might include persons of more than one line of descent. 2012 J. Goody in B. Isakhan & S. Stockwell Edinb. Compan. Hist. Democracy p. xi The next level of complexity beyond the horde has been seen, in political anthropology, as the acephalous society, which again has no overall leadership. 2. a. Chiefly depreciative. A large group of people, esp. one which is disorganized, disorderly, or threatening; a rabble, a crowd, a throng. Also more loosely (chiefly in plural): a large number of people (of a specified type).robber horde, victim horde: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > of people or animals > regarded as a whole or a body of people gathered weredc725 trumec893 thrumOE wharfOE flockOE farec1275 lithc1275 ferd1297 companyc1300 flotec1300 routc1300 rowc1300 turbc1330 body1340 numberc1350 congregation1382 presencec1390 meiniec1400 storec1400 sum1400 manya1425 collegec1430 peoplec1449 schoola1450 turm1483 catervea1492 garrison?a1513 shoal1579 troop1584 bevy1604 roast1608 horde1613 gross1617 rhapsody1654 sortment1710 tribe1715 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage iv. xiii. 359 Pillars of Stone, which sometimes were Hoords of Men and Beasts feeding, transformed by diuine power. 1796 E. Burke Two Lett. Peace Regicide Directory France i. 23 I hardly shall allow..that with the hord of Regicides we could..obtain any thing at all deserving the name of peace. 1888 H. E. Scudder in Atlantic Monthly Aug. 227/1 This great horde of young readers in America has created a large number of special writers for the young. 1951 E. Paul Springtime in Paris (U.K. ed.) ii. 24 There were a few North Americans, hordes of English, many South Americans, and a few Near-Easterners. 2008 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 20 July ar4 The teeming hordes of tourists who descend on Manhattan in the summer rarely stray far from Times Square in search of theater. b. A large (moving) group of animals, typically one considered as dangerous or destructive.locust horde, rat horde: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animals collectively > [noun] > swarm swarm1560 cloud1590 horde1613 skreeda1838 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage iv. xiii. 359 Pillars of Stone, which sometimes were Hoords of Men and Beasts feeding, transformed by diuine power. 1797 J. Fox Santa-Maria II. 67 Which would you choose, hen-hearted poltroon, to be minced in pieces by a banditti, or nibbled to atoms by a horde of wild beasts? 1880 Amer. Naturalist 14 804 By collecting, in winter, these caterpillars, mummified and filled with spores, they can be used in destroying the hordes of caterpillars of the next summer. 1935 Advertiser (Adelaide) 13 Aug. 14/5 A ravening horde of rabbits laid waste a great expanse of pasture land. 2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 6 July viii. 12/1 Hordes of mosquitoes greeted us as we unloaded. c. A large amount, number, or quantity of a thing or things. Now often in plural: masses, loads.In quot. as part of an extended metaphor with reference to sense 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > (a) great quantity or amount felec825 muchc1230 good wone1297 plentyc1300 bushelc1374 sight1390 mickle-whata1393 forcea1400 manynessa1400 multitudea1400 packc1400 a good dealc1430 greata1450 sackful1484 power1489 horseloadc1500 mile1508 lump1523 a deal?1532 peckc1535 heapa1547 mass1566 mass1569 gallon1575 armful1579 cart-load1587 mickle1599 bushelful1600–12 a load1609 wreck1612 parisha1616 herd1618 fair share1650 heapa1661 muchness1674 reams1681 hantle1693 mort1694 doll?1719 lift1755 acre1759 beaucoup1760 ton1770 boxload1795 boatload1807 lot1811 dollop1819 swag1819 faggald1824 screed1826 Niagara1828 wad1828 lashings1829 butt1831 slew1839 ocean1840 any amount (of)1848 rake1851 slather1857 horde1860 torrent1864 sheaf1865 oodlesa1867 dead load1869 scad1869 stack1870 jorum1872 a heap sight1874 firlot1883 oodlings1886 chunka1889 whips1888 God's quantity1895 streetful1901 bag1917 fid1920 fleetful1923 mob1927 bucketload1930 pisspot1944 shitload1954 megaton1957 mob-o-ton1975 gazillion1978 buttload1988 shit ton1991 the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [noun] > a large number or multitude sandc825 thousandc1000 un-i-rimeOE legiona1325 fernc1325 multitudec1350 hundred1362 abundancec1384 quantityc1390 sight1390 felec1394 manyheada1400 lastc1405 sortc1475 infinityc1480 multiplie1488 numbers1488 power1489 many1525 flock1535 heapa1547 multitudine1547 sort1548 myriads1555 myriads1559 infinite1563 tot-quot1565 dickera1586 multiplea1595 troop1596 multitudes1598 myriad1611 sea-sands1656 plurality1657 a vast many1695 dozen1734 a good few1756 nation1762 vast1793 a wheen (of)1814 swad1828 lot1833 tribe1833 slew1839 such a many1841 right smart1842 a million and one1856 horde1860 a good several1865 sheaf1865 a (bad, good, etc.) sortc1869 immense1872 dunnamuch1875 telephone number1880 umpty1905 dunnamany1906 skit1913 umpteen1919 zillion1922 gang1928 scrillion1935 jillion1942 900 number1977 gazillion1978 fuckload1984 1860 ‘G. F. Preston’ Ballads & Metrical Sketches 216 Chase away the horde Of guilt inspired, unholy meditations. 1908 R. D. Ware In Woods & on Shore 239 He..rowed, shivering, through the chilly darkness to a coffin-shaped box anchored in a waste of waters in the middle of a horde of bobbing, wooden decoys. 1985 Times 19 Dec. 17/2 After putting a horde of firms through one of the most hard-fought ‘beauty contests’ the City has seen, Marks and Spencer has appointed its new stockbrokers. 2014 J. A. Boone Homoerotics of Orientalism vii. 312 By the era of European travel to these regions, it is clear that hordes of book manuscripts were available for viewing and sale. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). hordev. Brit. /hɔːd/, U.S. /hɔrd/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: horde n. Etymology: < horde n. intransitive. With adverb or prepositional complement. To gather in a large group; to congregate or live in a horde. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (intransitive)] > specifically of people or animals > in large numbers thringOE threngc1175 crowda1400 flocka1400 swarm1526 growl1542 throngc1565 shoala1618 horde1801 bike1805 fry1816 hotch1893 1801 Derby Mercury 13 Aug. The impolitic custom of hording together in families, and of not marrying out of their own kraals, has tended to enervate this race of men. 1907 Canad. Mag. Feb. 385/2 It is a daily sight to see them wandering here, there and everywhere, half-starved, half-naked, hording in wretched hovels. 2017 N. Devon Jrnl. (Nexis) 3 Aug. 2 The stunt was achieved by placing a caged queen bee on Ben's chin and attracting the worker bees to horde around her, forming a beard. 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