horde

大群

一緒に移動したり押し寄せたりする、非常に多くの人や物の集まり。

やさしい英語で： 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.

使い方： a horde of someone/something (A horde of tourists surrounded the guide.)

類義語： crowd, swarm, multitude

よく使う表現： horde of tourists, horde of fans, a huge horde

遊牧集団

戦いや牧草地探しなどのため、各地を一緒に移動する人々の集団。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： tribe, band

よく使う表現： a nomadic horde, a wandering horde, a tribal horde