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Definition
a very large number — typically of people or animals/insects on the move
- Everywhere we went we encountered hordes of people, scurrying about their business, grim-faced.
- Hordes of well-to-do young Iranians traveled abroad in those years.
- "But this" he gestured to the horde of unsmiling Iranians scurrying through the streets of the ayatollah's Islamic Republic "is not what we wanted."
- Reeling from this assault of compliments, I went to the kitchen, concerned that I did not have enough food for the horde of unexpected guests.
There are no more uses of "horde" in Not Without My Daughter.
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