horde
noun/hɔːd/
/hɔːrd/
(sometimes disapproving)- a large crowd of people
- There are always hordes of tourists here in the summer.
- in hordes Football fans turned up in hordes.
- He could see the infantry advancing in hordes across the open ground.
- The elves defeated a huge horde of goblins.
Word Originmid 16th cent. (originally denoting a tribe or troop of Tartar or other nomads): from Polish horda, from Turkish ordu ‘(royal) camp’.
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