Definitions for horde

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Spelling: [hawrd, hohrd]
IPA: /hɔrd, hoʊrd/

Horde is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 60 anagrams from letters in horde (dehor).

Definitions for horde

noun

  1. a large group, multitude, number, etc.; a mass or crowd:
  2. a tribe or troop of Asian nomads.
  3. any nomadic group.
  4. a moving pack or swarm of animals:

verb (used without object)

  1. to gather in a horde:

Origin of horde

1545-55; earlier also hord, horda ≪ Czech, Polish horda Ukrainian dialect gordá, Ukrainian ordá, Old Russian (orig. in Zolotaya orda the Golden Horde), via Mongolian or directly Turkic ordu,

Examples for horde

The horde of Saxons took flight into the hall, and there they stood and got breath.

At about 10 p.m., a horde of Hungarian police officers raided the bar, demanding that everybody show their identification.

Wasn't it from the Szekler Stone that our fathers repulsed the whole Mongolian horde?

Perhaps the threat of legal action has also played a role in curbing the horde of dyspeptic deviants.

Of course there's a horde of applicants, but you're exceptional; you know that.

But along with the cartoon funk is an all-too-real story of police brutality embodied by a horde of evil Pigs.

If there are houses there, and stores for the sun-time, who will shut them to this horde of desperadoes?

Mrs. Clooney has been followed around Athens during a three-day visit by a horde of paparazzi that number into the hundreds.

Here is a title that, in its prologue, tasks players with fighting a horde of angels on top of a moving jet.

Smothered and lost were the warriors in the horde that poured increasingly on.

Word Value for horde
Scrable

9

Words with friends

8

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