a large group, multitude, number, etc.; a mass or crowd:
a horde of tourists.
2.
a tribe or troop of Asian nomads.
3.
any nomadic group.
4.
a moving pack or swarm of animals:
A horde of mosquitoes invaded the camp.
verb (used without object), horded, hording.
5.
to gather in a horde:
The prisoners horded together in the compound.
Origin
1545-55; earlier also hord, horda ≪ Czech,Polishhorda < Ukrainian dialectgordá,Ukrainianordá,Old Russian (orig. in Zolotaya orda the Golden Horde), via Mongolian or directly < Turkicordu, orda royal residence or camp (later, any military encampment, army); cf. Urdu
He's kidnapped by a horde of the creatures one night and implanted with a small bug that allows them to control his actions.
Not everyone in the horde was a howling teenage girl.
The media horde is as big as the revolutionary armies that freed the republic.
The characterization is wryly humorous, while a horde of ravenous lobsters give the plot a wildly ghoulish twist.
Each faction has their own map, designed as the factions last stand against the zombie horde.
And while there wont be much diversity in this new horde, at least its a start.
In other words they horde players.
Check it out, and don't make up your mind based on the horde of naysayers here.
James was greeted by a horde of news media as he entered the arena.
The decision is a victory for an entrenched small company against a horde of bigger, better-financed aspirants.
British Dictionary definitions for horde
horde
/hɔːd/
noun
1.
a vast crowd; throng; mob
2.
a local group of people in a nomadic society
3.
a nomadic group of people, esp an Asiatic group
4.
a large moving mass of animals, esp insects
verb
5.
(intransitive) to form, move in, or live in a horde
Usage note
Horde is sometimes wrongly written where hoard is meant: a hoard (not horde) of gold coins
Word Origin
C16: from Polish horda, from Turkish ordū camp; compare Urdu
Word Origin and History for horde
n.
1550s, from W. Turkic (cf. Tatar urda "horde," Turkish ordu "camp, army"), to English via Polish, French, or Spanish. The initial -h- seems to have been acquired in Polish. Transferred sense of "uncivilized gang" is from 1610s. Related: Hordes.