Main Entry: ¹swarm

Pronunciation: \ˈswȯrm\

Function: noun

Etymology: Middle English, from Old English swearm; akin to Old High German swaram swarm and probably to Latin susurrus hum

Date: before 12th century

1 a : a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere b : a colony of honeybees settled in a hive
2 a : a large number of animate or inanimate things massed together and usually in motion : throng <swarms of sightseers> <a swarm of locusts> <a swarm of meteors> b : a number of similar geological features or phenomena close together in space or time <a swarm of dikes> <an earthquake swarm>