Synonyms:
horde, host, legion
Meaning: a vast multitude
Usage examples
But now the fierce horde becomes still fiercer.
A suggestion of the Vedic Vritra and his horde of monsters.
I ken a body made a strike. He looked a little lord. He had a clan o' followers Amang a needy horde.
"Yes, captain," I replied, "but unfortunately we've brought back a horde of bipeds whose proximity worries me."
The effect of sudden wealth on some of the hungry, ragged horde who infested Cariboo was of a sort to discount fiction.
After them comes the great mass of the horde, big, heavily-laden craft, their round backs and swelling bellies testifying to their success in their toil for material needs.
Suddenly, however, she remembered how her screaming had brought the horde of wolves and hyenas about her in the forest, and, ceasing at once, lay still, gazing yet again at the moon.
As the sea flooding the flat sands Flew on the sea-born horde, The two hosts shocked with dust and din, Left of the Latian paladin, Clanged all Prince Harold's howling kin On Colan and the sword.
In another minute the frightened pickets came tumbling back, and right behind them came the long files of charging, yelling Confederates; With one fierce rush Jackson's men swept over the Union lines, and at a blow the Eleventh Corps became a horde of panicstruck fugitives.