horde
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horde
- /hɔːd/ UK
- /hɔɹd/ US
- /hoːd/ Australia
- /ho(ː)ɹd/
- /hoəd/
Sounds like hoard, whored · Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)d
Where it comes from
Recorded in English since 1555. From Middle French horde, from German Horde, from Polish horda, from Russian орда́ (ordá, “horde, clan, troop”), probably from Kipchak Turkic (compare Tatar урда (urda, “horde”)), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *ordu (“place of staying of the army, ruler etc.”). Cognates include Turkish ordu (“camp, army”), Mongolian орд (ord, “court, castle, royal compound, camp, horde”) and Kalmyk орда (orda). Doublet of orda and Urdu.
noun hordes
- A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people (originally Tatars) migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude.
- A large number of people or things. We were beset by a horde of street vendors who thought we were tourists and would buy their cheap souvenirs.
verb hordes · hording · hordeing · horded
- To travel en masse; to flock. "What wouldst thou insinuate?" replied Elmuton, sarcastically; “has he not been watched, and secretly discovered hordeing with Christians?
