horde

horde

noun \ˈhȯrd\

Definition of HORDE

1

a : a political subdivision of central Asian nomads b : a people or tribe of nomadic life

2

: a teeming crowd or throng : swarm

Examples of HORDE

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

Origin of HORDE

Middle French, German, & Polish; Middle French & German, from Polish horda, from Ukrainian dialect gorda, alteration of Ukrainian orda, from Old Russian, from Turkic orda, ordu khan's residence

First Known Use: 1555

Related to HORDE

Synonyms: army, bike [chiefly Scottish], cram, crush, drove, flock, herd, crowd, host, legion, mass, mob, multitude, press, rout, scrum, swarm, throng

Related Words: masses, millions, rabble, rabblement, riffraff; gaggle; heap, mountain, pile; jam, logjam

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See Synonym Discussion at crowd

Other Anthropology Terms

ectomorph, ethnography, prehistory, yurt

Rhymes with HORDE

board, chord, cord, cored, floored, ford, gourd, hoard, lord, oared, pored, sward, sword, ward