horde Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a vast multitude
    legion; host.
  2. noun a nomadic community
  3. noun a moving crowd
    swarm; drove.

WordNet

Horde noun
Etymology
F. horde (cf. G. horde), fr. Turk. ord, ordi, camp; of Tartar origin.
Definitions
  1. A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude. Thomson.

Webster 1913