horde

horde, foule

Très grand groupe de personnes ou de choses, souvent en mouvement ou arrivant ensemble.

En anglais simple : A very large group of people or things, often moving or arriving together.

• A horde of fans waited outside.
• Hordes of insects filled the evening air.
• We escaped the hordes of shoppers downtown.

Comment l'utiliser : a horde of someone/something (A horde of tourists surrounded the guide.)

Synonymes : crowd, swarm, multitude

Expressions courantes : horde of tourists, horde of fans, a huge horde

horde

Groupe de personnes se déplaçant ensemble, parfois pour combattre ou trouver des pâturages.

En anglais simple : A group of people traveling together from place to place, sometimes to fight or find grazing land.

• The horde moved across the steppe.
• Each horde traveled with its horses and tents.
• The historian described a horde seeking fresh grazing land.

Synonymes : tribe, band

Expressions courantes : a nomadic horde, a wandering horde, a tribal horde