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 hive2 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>