1
a
: a political subdivision of central Asian nomads
b
: a people or tribe of nomadic life
2
: a large unorganized group of individuals : a teeming crowd or throng
hordes of peasants
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A horde of tourists entered the museum.
Hordes of reporters were shouting questions.
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Cities mean closer quarters, dark alleys, and forked paths where one wrong turn means meeting a horde of Voteless to liberate.
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Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
Areas affected by recent hurricanes also need to bring in hordes of outside workers as communities begin to rebuild.
—Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Nov. 2024
In political cartoons from the turn of the 20th century, Eastern European and Jewish immigrants were depicted as rats, while Chinese immigrants were portrayed as a horde of grasshoppers – echoing imagery from Revelation, where locusts with human faces swarm the Earth.
—Yii-Jan Lin, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2024
The wobbling of another ship, at the weight of over a thousand passengers and hordes of packages, stacked up to the awnings, stuffed above the lifeboats, piled even onto the anchor deck, preventing its use.
—Zining Mok, Longreads, 22 Oct. 2024
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Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
Areas affected by recent hurricanes also need to bring in hordes of outside workers as communities begin to rebuild.
—Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Nov. 2024
In political cartoons from the turn of the 20th century, Eastern European and Jewish immigrants were depicted as rats, while Chinese immigrants were portrayed as a horde of grasshoppers – echoing imagery from Revelation, where locusts with human faces swarm the Earth.
—Yii-Jan Lin, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2024
The wobbling of another ship, at the weight of over a thousand passengers and hordes of packages, stacked up to the awnings, stuffed above the lifeboats, piled even onto the anchor deck, preventing its use.
—Zining Mok, Longreads, 22 Oct. 2024
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“Horde.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/horde. Accessed 24 Dec. 2024.
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