- a large group, multitude, number, etc.; a mass or crowd: a horde of tourists.
- a tribe or troop of Asian nomads.
- any nomadic group.
- a moving pack or swarm of animals: A horde of mosquitoes invaded the camp.
- to gather in a horde: The prisoners horded together in the compound.
- a vast crowd; throng; mob
- a local group of people in a nomadic society
- a nomadic group of people, esp an Asiatic group
- a large moving mass of animals, esp insects
- to form, move in, or live in a horde