horde
pronunciation
How to pronounce horde in British English:
UK [hɔːd]
How to pronounce horde in American English:
US [hɔːrd]
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- Noun:
- a vast multitude
- a nomadic community
- a moving crowd
Word Origin
- horde
- horde: see hoard
- horde (n.)
- 1550s, from West Turkic (compare 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.
Example
- 1. And now they ride a long side to the horde ?
- 2. A horde of children ran over the office building .
- 3. The force there assembled was trivial compared with danish horde .
- 4. It is fun to play a goblin whose hut is at risk of being burned down arbitrarily by a barbarian horde .
- 5. The military nobility of the golden horde , which consisted of bulgar and kupchak aristocracy clans , was formed at the same time , presenting a type of new tatar community consciousness .