Definition of HORDE

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crowd, throng, horde, crush, mob mean an assembled multitude. crowd implies a close gathering and pressing together. a crowd gathered throng and horde suggest movement and pushing. a throng of reporters a horde of shoppers crush emphasizes the compactness of the group, the difficulty of individual movement, and the attendant discomfort. a crush of fans mob implies a disorderly crowd with the potential for violence. an angry mob

Examples of horde in a Sentence

A horde of tourists entered the museum. Hordes of reporters were shouting questions.

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By convincing the world’s other great Old Master collections, from Madrid’s Prado to New York’s Frick Museum, to hand over the jewels in their respective crowns, Vienna has assembled a kind of art-historical horde. — J.s. Marcus, WSJ, "Strange and Stirring Bruegel," 7 Sep. 2018 Xerox’s request: that Fuji add $1.25 billion to the dividend, not by piling more debt on Fuji Xerox, but from Fuji’s own cash horde. — Shawn Tully, Fortune, "Paper Jam! How Carl Icahn And a Billionaire Partner Blocked Xerox’s Merger with Fujifilm," 21 May 2018 As promised during the original announcement, Eternal introduces hell on Earth, with a new setting that brings the demon hordes off of Mars and down to our home planet; though there are still sci-fi locations like the Martian moon Phobos. — Andrew Webster, The Verge, "Get your first look at Doom Eternal in new trailer," 10 Aug. 2018 On a Friday night, the bar feels like a mere way station for hordes waiting to be seated in the dining room. — Samantha Melamed, Philly.com, "Miss the old South Philly? It lives on at Villa di Roma," 24 Apr. 2018 The video, which dropped on November 7, features Ariana in a train station, moving slowly as hordes of people rush around her. — Claire Dodson, Teen Vogue, "Ariana Grande's "Breathin'" Music Video Features a Hidden Clue About Her Next Album," 7 Nov. 2018 This quiet coastal city accustomed to hosting South Korean tourists at its beaches and pine forests is now gearing up for something it's never seen before — hordes of foreign visitors attending the upcoming Winter Olympics. — Thomas Maresca, USA TODAY, "This quiet South Korean city prepares for hordes of foreigners at 2018 Winter Olympics," 30 Jan. 2018 Voyager proved that assumption wrong; Cassini's mission was to survey Saturn's horde of satellites and return some understanding of their histories. — Carolyn Porco, Scientific American, "Cassini at Saturn: A Retrospective," 1 Oct. 2017 Here on the central Asian steppe, the ancient home of Genghis Khan and his Mongol horde, the nomads are brought up tough. — Simon Denyer, Washington Post, "Mongolia’s nomadic way of life threatened by climate change, neglect, modernity," 8 July 2018

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