horde

plural hordes

1. collectiveA 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.
2. collectiveA 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.

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   It is true, the more progressive members of our horde lived in the caves above the river.

   1907, Jack London, Before Adam, Chapter IV

   And so Tarzan of the Apes dropped lightly to the turf into the midst of the fierce and hideous horde—he had completed the cycle of evolution, and had returned to be once again a brute among brutes.

   1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 197

present singular third person hordes · participle present hording · participle present hordeing · participle past horded · past horded

1. intransitiveTo travel en masse; to flock.

   "What wouldst thou insinuate?" replied Elmuton, sarcastically; “has he not been watched, and secretly discovered hordeing with Christians?

   1824, T. E., Oriental Wanderings, or the Fortunes of Felix. A romance, page 69