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Definition of horde in English: hordenoun hɔːdhɔrd 1derogatory A large group of people. a horde of beery rugby fans Example sentencesExamples - Such is the notoriety of the paintings, the auction at Gleneagles next month is expected to attract interest from a horde of international collectors who are expected to bid at least £30,000 for the pair.
- A group of strangers barricade themselves into a house in order to escape from a horde of flesh-eating zombies.
- Few men ever enter the hallowed portals of the bridal shop and the dress, once bought, is jealously guarded from male sight by a horde of female relatives.
- I had forgotten that Julian himself had a horde of loyal female defenders.
- He got savaged, for the umpteenth time, by a horde of ravening Republicans.
- There's even a marvelous impression of an infatuated audience given by a horde of panting extras.
- If you're going to have a birthday party and want to transport a horde of 10-year-olds, borrow the minivan.
- When the victorious Indian team landed in Delhi on their way back from Sydney, IHF president K. P. S. Gill and a horde of officials received the team at the airport.
- Now, however, with internal communications networks and the speed of the Internet, you don't need a horde of people in a big pyramid to handle all that information.
- It's already clear that there are a whole bunch of highbrows who talk only to themselves and a horde of middlebrows who simply try to out-bray one another.
- Dating back hundreds of years to the times when the Kazakhs were divided into three distinct hordes or large tribes, it has been important to know about your kin groups.
- Outside the Russia House, headquarters for the country's Olympic delegation in Turin, a horde of people gathered at the entryway, looking frozen and distraught.
- A passionate left-wing polemicist, he nonetheless retained more than a few traces of his public-school breeding, including a plummy accent and a horde of posh friends.
- But leader writers have to compete for attention nowadays with a horde of columnists and regular commentators who indulge in polemics which are, by their nature, less measured than editorials.
- The 99-year-old circus has pitched tents here with about 300 staff and a horde of animals, including elephants, horses, parrots and dogs.
- The media plans to assemble a horde of journalists in Terre Haute to report live on the execution.
- On one side of the avenue stood a horde of onlookers, on the other television crews, all looking two blocks south towards a colossal pile of twisted and smoking steel, seven stories high.
- The prospect of better remuneration and living conditions attracted a horde of low paid Muslims to such gatherings.
- It's one thing to get some exercise; it's something else to repeatedly, day after day, show off in spandex before a horde of newspapermen.
- Although a horde of Thursday night previewers came to the consensus that ‘it was cute,’ this film is not worth paying $8 or over to see.
- When you find the whole nation, is behaving like a horde of mythical lemmings, about to go over the cliff, you don't want to follow lemming opinion!
Synonyms group, gang, mob, pack, troop, troupe, company, party, bevy, crew, body, working party, posse - 1.1 An army or tribe of nomadic warriors.
Example sentencesExamples - It was completely devastated by Turkmen tribes, the hordes of Tamerlane, and the Persian Safavids.
- But which North Yorkshire clash between the English army and the Viking hordes took place the same year?
- After 10 years and the labor of over 800,000 soldiers and peasants, China had a wall stretching over 3,000 miles to repel the Mongol hordes.
- A barrier of shimmering light appeared, stretching from wall to wall and ceiling to floor just as the horde of evil warriors ran straight into it, letting out cries of rage at a magic they could not get though.
- This nomadic horde on horses is supposed to have ‘conquered’ a civilization covering an area of almost 800,000 square kilometers.
- Kourin and Kellan worked their way through the horde of warriors, seeking to join up with Regnor.
- He says he has united the Germanic Tribes, and the hordes of Iberia, Italia, and Britannica, in a full wave to conquer all.
- Britain has been invaded by a Saxon horde, and a Roman family, including the Pope's godson Alecto, is directly in the path of the Saxon advance.
- She had seen the Grand Conflux, beset by a dark horde of warriors, greater in strength and number than any army that had been raised by mortal hands.
- The feudal ownership of land did bring dignity, whereas the modern ownership of movables is reducing us again to a nomadic horde.
- Residents need not fear an invading horde of Iceni warriors, for it is the 16 ft tall statue of Colchester's first lady that is making a comeback.
- These abilities can be upgraded as well, providing Kratos with stronger magical attacks, which give him an edge in fighting off the hordes of enemies flocking to Ares' flag of destruction.
- There are three primary dialects that correspond to the three historic Kazak hordes.
- It was deeply metallic, and somewhat dark; almost like that of the hybrid outcast he had led his horde against over five centuries ago.
- In the east and north are the humanoid hordes and the barbarian nomads.
- We are like hordes of nomads constantly changing places in a feeble attempt to make our work lives better.
- The angelic army and the necromancer horde were both spectators in the arena.
- The Viking hordes returned to York this weekend as fierce armoured warriors mingled with the city centre crowds.
- Driving his bloodthirsty hordes ever forward, the Dark Lord began scouring every single dimension, leaving no stone unturned.
- When the empire collapsed, hordes of barbarian armies, including the infamous Vandal pirates, invaded Italy throughout the fifth century AD.
Synonyms crowd, large group, mob, pack, gang, troop, army, swarm, mass throng, multitude, host, drove, band, flock, gathering, assemblage, press informal crew, tribe, load archaic rout
2Anthropology
A small loosely knit social group typically consisting of about five families. Example sentencesExamples - And without the ties of kinship, we would be nothing more than a disconnected horde.
- That primitive society took the form of a horde, the leader of which horde, the horde-father, actuated by his sexual jealousy, habitually treated his sons with extreme brutality.
- After the slaying and cannibalising of the primal father, if the horde was to survive, there had to be a prohibition against murder and another against incest.
- The criminal deed is the sons' murder of the tribal patriarch who had monopolized the women of the horde.
Usage The words hoard and horde are quite distinct; see hoard Origin Mid 16th century (originally denoting a tribe or troop of Tartar or other nomads): from Polish horda, from Turkish ordu '(royal) camp'. A horde was originally a tribe or troop of nomads, such as the Tartars led by Genghis Khan, who migrated from place to place in search of new pasture or plunder. The word comes from Polish horda, which is itself from Turkish ordu ‘royal camp’, from which the language name Urdu (late 18th century) also derives. The word is often confused with hoard (Old English) a Germanic word for ‘a secret stock or store’.
Rhymes aboard, abroad, accord, afford, applaud, award, bawd, board, broad, chord, Claude, cord, ford, fraud, gaud, Gawd, hoard, laud, lord, maraud, milord, sward, sword, toward, unawed, unexplored, unrestored, ward Definition of horde in US English: hordenounhɔrdhôrd 1derogatory A large group of people. he was surrounded by a horde of tormenting relatives Example sentencesExamples - Such is the notoriety of the paintings, the auction at Gleneagles next month is expected to attract interest from a horde of international collectors who are expected to bid at least £30,000 for the pair.
- Now, however, with internal communications networks and the speed of the Internet, you don't need a horde of people in a big pyramid to handle all that information.
- But leader writers have to compete for attention nowadays with a horde of columnists and regular commentators who indulge in polemics which are, by their nature, less measured than editorials.
- On one side of the avenue stood a horde of onlookers, on the other television crews, all looking two blocks south towards a colossal pile of twisted and smoking steel, seven stories high.
- The media plans to assemble a horde of journalists in Terre Haute to report live on the execution.
- I had forgotten that Julian himself had a horde of loyal female defenders.
- A group of strangers barricade themselves into a house in order to escape from a horde of flesh-eating zombies.
- A passionate left-wing polemicist, he nonetheless retained more than a few traces of his public-school breeding, including a plummy accent and a horde of posh friends.
- Outside the Russia House, headquarters for the country's Olympic delegation in Turin, a horde of people gathered at the entryway, looking frozen and distraught.
- The 99-year-old circus has pitched tents here with about 300 staff and a horde of animals, including elephants, horses, parrots and dogs.
- The prospect of better remuneration and living conditions attracted a horde of low paid Muslims to such gatherings.
- He got savaged, for the umpteenth time, by a horde of ravening Republicans.
- If you're going to have a birthday party and want to transport a horde of 10-year-olds, borrow the minivan.
- It's one thing to get some exercise; it's something else to repeatedly, day after day, show off in spandex before a horde of newspapermen.
- When the victorious Indian team landed in Delhi on their way back from Sydney, IHF president K. P. S. Gill and a horde of officials received the team at the airport.
- There's even a marvelous impression of an infatuated audience given by a horde of panting extras.
- Dating back hundreds of years to the times when the Kazakhs were divided into three distinct hordes or large tribes, it has been important to know about your kin groups.
- Few men ever enter the hallowed portals of the bridal shop and the dress, once bought, is jealously guarded from male sight by a horde of female relatives.
- When you find the whole nation, is behaving like a horde of mythical lemmings, about to go over the cliff, you don't want to follow lemming opinion!
- It's already clear that there are a whole bunch of highbrows who talk only to themselves and a horde of middlebrows who simply try to out-bray one another.
- Although a horde of Thursday night previewers came to the consensus that ‘it was cute,’ this film is not worth paying $8 or over to see.
Synonyms group, gang, mob, pack, troop, troupe, company, party, bevy, crew, body, working party, posse - 1.1 An army or tribe of nomadic warriors.
Example sentencesExamples - In the east and north are the humanoid hordes and the barbarian nomads.
- After 10 years and the labor of over 800,000 soldiers and peasants, China had a wall stretching over 3,000 miles to repel the Mongol hordes.
- It was deeply metallic, and somewhat dark; almost like that of the hybrid outcast he had led his horde against over five centuries ago.
- He says he has united the Germanic Tribes, and the hordes of Iberia, Italia, and Britannica, in a full wave to conquer all.
- The angelic army and the necromancer horde were both spectators in the arena.
- Residents need not fear an invading horde of Iceni warriors, for it is the 16 ft tall statue of Colchester's first lady that is making a comeback.
- The Viking hordes returned to York this weekend as fierce armoured warriors mingled with the city centre crowds.
- These abilities can be upgraded as well, providing Kratos with stronger magical attacks, which give him an edge in fighting off the hordes of enemies flocking to Ares' flag of destruction.
- We are like hordes of nomads constantly changing places in a feeble attempt to make our work lives better.
- It was completely devastated by Turkmen tribes, the hordes of Tamerlane, and the Persian Safavids.
- This nomadic horde on horses is supposed to have ‘conquered’ a civilization covering an area of almost 800,000 square kilometers.
- There are three primary dialects that correspond to the three historic Kazak hordes.
- Driving his bloodthirsty hordes ever forward, the Dark Lord began scouring every single dimension, leaving no stone unturned.
- She had seen the Grand Conflux, beset by a dark horde of warriors, greater in strength and number than any army that had been raised by mortal hands.
- The feudal ownership of land did bring dignity, whereas the modern ownership of movables is reducing us again to a nomadic horde.
- Kourin and Kellan worked their way through the horde of warriors, seeking to join up with Regnor.
- A barrier of shimmering light appeared, stretching from wall to wall and ceiling to floor just as the horde of evil warriors ran straight into it, letting out cries of rage at a magic they could not get though.
- When the empire collapsed, hordes of barbarian armies, including the infamous Vandal pirates, invaded Italy throughout the fifth century AD.
- But which North Yorkshire clash between the English army and the Viking hordes took place the same year?
- Britain has been invaded by a Saxon horde, and a Roman family, including the Pope's godson Alecto, is directly in the path of the Saxon advance.
Synonyms crowd, large group, mob, pack, gang, troop, army, swarm, mass
2Anthropology
A loosely knit small social group typically consisting of about five families. Example sentencesExamples - After the slaying and cannibalising of the primal father, if the horde was to survive, there had to be a prohibition against murder and another against incest.
- That primitive society took the form of a horde, the leader of which horde, the horde-father, actuated by his sexual jealousy, habitually treated his sons with extreme brutality.
- And without the ties of kinship, we would be nothing more than a disconnected horde.
- The criminal deed is the sons' murder of the tribal patriarch who had monopolized the women of the horde.
Usage The words hoard and horde are quite distinct; see hoard Origin Mid 16th century (originally denoting a tribe or troop of Tartar or other nomads): from Polish horda, from Turkish ordu ‘(royal) camp’. |