noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
primal
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For it was in the primal horde that the first murder was performed, and this has haunted mankind ever since.
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We should recall that man did not originally evolve in a liberal democracy, but in the primal horde .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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According to Imperial records the horde gathered at the coast and began to construct a huge fleet.
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Her images of that horde of ribald workmen looked positively endearing next to this man.
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Hideous monsters, in their hordes.
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Imagine all the trouble hordes of tots and teenagers can get into with nothing to do all day but hang around.
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Security guards held hordes at bay, while men with binoculars eyed the bevy from vans.
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Since then, people say, the beast, or, possibly, a horde of them, has been moving fast.
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The quantities can be adjusted to feed the hordes.