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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a vast multitude [syn: horde, host, legion]
2: a nomadic community
3: a moving crowd [syn: drove, horde, swarm]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: 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 Date: 1555 1. a. a political subdivision of central Asian nomads b. a people or tribe of nomadic life 2. a teeming crowd or throng ; swarm Synonyms: see crowd

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a usu. derog. a large group, a gang. b a moving swarm or pack (of insects, wolves, etc.). 2 a troop of Tartar or other nomads. Etymology: Pol. horda f. Turki ordi, ordu camp: cf. URDU

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Horde Horde, n. [F. horde (cf. G. horde), fr. Turk. ord?, ord[=i], camp; of Tartar origin.] A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude. --Thomson.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(hordes) If you describe a crowd of people as a horde, you mean that the crowd is very large and excited and, often, rather frightening or unpleasant. This attracts hordes of tourists to Las Vegas. N-COUNT: usu N of n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Gang (not living in fixed habitations), troop, crew, clan, migratory company or throng. 2. [Usually in pl.] Multitude, throng, crowd, vast number, great crowd.

Moby Thesaurus

army, assemble, bunch, bunch up, clot, cluster, cohue, collect, come together, congregate, converge, copulate, couple, crowd, crush, date, deluge, drove, flock, flock together, flood, flow together, forgather, fuse, galaxy, gang around, gang up, gather, gather around, heap, herd together, hive, host, huddle, ignobile vulgus, jam, league, legion, link, many-headed multitude, mass, meet, merge, mill, mob, mobile vulgus, multitude, muster, panoply, press, push, rabble, rally, rally around, rendezvous, rout, ruck, seethe, spate, squash, stream, surge, swarm, the common herd, the crowd, the great unnumbered, the great unwashed, the herd, the hoi polloi, the horde, the majority, the many, the masses, the mob, the multitude, throng, unite