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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 groupExamples from the Corpushorde• Since 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 of• New York is overrun by hordes of tourists in the summer.Origin horde (1500-1600) French and German, from Polish hordahorde nounChinese moving uncontrolled crowd noisy large Corpus a way a in |