Definitions for swarm

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swarm swarm

Spelling: [swawrm]

IPA: /swɔrm/

Swarm is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 64 anagrams from letters in swarm (amrsw).

Definitions for swarm

noun

1. a body of honeybees that emigrate from a hive and fly off together, accompanied by a queen, to start a new colony.
2. a body of bees settled together, as in a hive.
3. a great number of things or persons, especially in motion.
4. Biology. a group or aggregation of free-floating or free-swimming cells or organisms.
5. Geology. a cluster of earthquakes or other geologic phenomena or features.

verb (used with object)

1. to swarm about, over, or in; throng; overrun.
2. to produce a swarm of.

verb (used without object)

1. to fly off together in a swarm, as bees.
2. to move about, along, forth, etc., in great numbers, as things or persons.
3. to congregate, hover, or occur in groups or multitudes; be exceedingly numerous, as in a place or area.
4. (of a place) to be thronged or overrun; abound or teem:
5. Biology. to move or swim about in a swarm.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to climb by clasping with the legs and hands or arms and drawing oneself up; shin.

Origin of swarm

before 900; (noun) Middle English; Old English swearm; cognate with German Schwarm swarm, Old Norse svarmr tumult; (v.) Middle English swarmen, derivative of the noun

Examples for swarm

A swarm of airships came into view, swirling in savage fight.

But the sprinkling was a swarm in the Twickenham cottage, and filled it.

The moment a report of a gun is heard they'll swarm up to this room and get you.

While he was doing that, Marion Barry was still holding court for a swarm of reporters back towards the stage.

The Stalwarts hoped to swarm the convention and force a challenge to the delegate roll.

He was prepared to swarm the island—not directly, but through Brooklyn.

Normally an air accident investigation would involve a swarm of hard-nosed engineers and scientists poring over wreckage.

And springing up, he ran to the bowsprit and began to swarm along it.

When he struck, Brown wrote, “The bees will begin to swarm.”

A swarm surrounded the drug store, the glass door of which stood open.