Lexic.us

Definition of Horde

1. Noun. A vast multitude.

Definition of Horde

1. n. 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.

Definition of Horde

1. Noun. 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. ¹

2. Noun. A large number of people. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Horde

1. to gather in a large group [v HORDED, HORDING, HORDES]

Medical Definition of Horde

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. Origin: F. Horde (cf. G. Horde), fr. Turk. Ord, ordi, camp; of Tartar origin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Horde

Literary usage of Horde

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1902)
"The figures supplied by Mr Greenberg, in an appendix to the ' Jewish Year Book,' show that the ' horde' in 1900 reached a grand total of 12857,f and that ..."

2. Inductive Sociology: A Syllabus of Methods, Analyses and Classifications by Franklin Henry Giddings (1901)
"No such horde is anywhere found living in absolute isolation. It is always in communication with other similar hordes of the same race, language, ..."

3. A History of Matrimonial Institutions Chiefly in England and the United by George Elliott Howard (1904)
"... CHAPTER II THEORY OF THE horde AND MOTHER-RIGHT [BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE II.—A pioneer in the comparative history of marriage and the family is Unger, ..."

4. The Mongols in Russia by Jeremiah Curtin (1908)
"Dmitri learned later that he had not left the horde before the following Mongol message ... When Dmitri returned from the horde with a new patent and honor, ..."

5. A History of Greece: From Its Conquest by the Romans to the Present Time, B by George Finlay (1877)
"The daughter of David, and Alexios the son of his brother Alexander, were compelled to embrace Islam. LIST OF THE CHIEFS OF THE TURKOMAN horde OF THE WHITE ..."

6. Across Africa by Verney Lovett Cameron, Daniel Oliver (1877)
"A horde of Ruffians.—A Thorough Blackguard.—A King among Beggars. ... January, WITH Kasongo returned the horde of ruffians who had ac- 1875. companied him ..."

7. Readings in Descriptive and Historical Sociology by Franklin Henry Giddings (1906)
"The horde. — This is a name applied to a small social group composed of a few families, ... No such horde is anywhere found living in absolute isolation. ..."

8. Travels in the Regions of the Upper and Lower Amoor, and the Russian by Thomas Witlam Atkinson (1860)
"Here were the pastures of the Great horde; and in one of the valleys Russia was just commencing a fort. A ride of ten days after leaving ..."

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