HORDE


Meaning of HORDE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

primal

For it was in the primal horde that the first murder was performed, and this has haunted mankind ever since.

We should recall that man did not originally evolve in a liberal democracy, but in the primal horde .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

According to Imperial records the horde gathered at the coast and began to construct a huge fleet.

Her images of that horde of ribald workmen looked positively endearing next to this man.

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.

Security guards held hordes at bay, while men with binoculars eyed the bevy from vans.

Since then, people say, the beast, or, possibly, a horde of them, has been moving fast.

The quantities can be adjusted to feed the hordes.

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