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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++horde /hɔːd $ hɔːrd/ noun [countable]  CROWDa large crowd moving in a noisy uncontrolled way 〔吵吵嚷嚷的〕一大群horde of There were hordes of people inside the station. 车站里有一群群乱哄哄的人。see thesaurus at group
Examples from the Corpus
hordeSince then, people say, the beast, or, possibly, a horde of them, has been moving fast.Security guards held hordes at bay, while men with binoculars eyed the bevy from vans.Her images of that horde of ribald workmen looked positively endearing next to this man.The quantities can be adjusted to feed the hordes.According to Imperial records the horde gathered at the coast and began to construct a huge fleet.Hideous monsters, in their hordes.Imagine all the trouble hordes of tots and teenagers can get into with nothing to do all day but hang around.horde ofNew York is overrun by hordes of tourists in the summer.
Origin horde (1500-1600) French and German, from Polish horda
horde nounChinese
moving uncontrolled crowd noisy large Corpus a way a in


horde
horde /hɔːd $ hɔːrd/ noun [countable]
 Date: 1500-1600
 Language: French
 Origin: and German, from Polish horda
a large crowd moving in a noisy uncontrolled way
    horde of
    There were hordes of people inside the station.


hordeBrE /hɔːd/ 🔊NAmE /hɔːrd/ 🔊 noun (sometimes disapproving) a large crowd of people 一大群人There are always hordes of tourists here in the summer. 夏天这里总有成群结队的游客。🔊🔊Football fans turned up in hordes. 来了大批大批的足球迷。🔊🔊