horde

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”)), from Proto-Turkic *or- (“army, 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). Also Doublet of Urdu.

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: hôd, IPA^(key): /hɔːd/
• (General American) enPR: hôrd, IPA^(key): /hɔɹd/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: hōrd, IPA^(key): /ho(ː)ɹd/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /hoəd/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
• Homophones: hoard, whored

horde (plural hordes)

1. 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.
2. 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.

   • 1907, Jack London, Before Adam, Chapter IV:

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

horde (third-person singular simple present hordes, present participle hording or hordeing, simple past and past participle horded)

1. to travel en masse, to flock
   • 1824, T. E., Oriental Wanderings, or the Fortunes of Felix. A romance, page 69:

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

• Sometimes confused with hoard.

• Herod, Rhode, Rohde

From German Horde.

horde c (singular definite horden, plural indefinite horder)

1. horde

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦɔrdə/

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• Hyphenation: hor‧de
• Rhymes: -ɔrdə

horde f (plural horden or hordes, diminutive hordetje n)

1. A horde
2. A troop of boy scouts, comprising no more than 24 cubs

horde f (plural horden, diminutive hordetje n)

1. A gross sieve
2. A hurdle

• hordeloop

• M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ɔʁd/

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horde f (plural hordes)

1. a horde

• “horde”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• (Maasina) hoorde

horde nde

1. (Pulaar) calabash

• M. Niang, Pulaar-English English-Pulaar Standard Dictionary, New York: Hippocrene Books, 1997.

horde

1. Alternative form of hord

horde

1. Alternative form of horden

From German Horde.

horde m (definite singular horden, indefinite plural horder, definite plural hordene)

1. a horde

• “horde” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

horde

1. inflection of hordy:
   1. neuter nominative/accusative singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural