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Plural of horde

regular plural

The plural of horde is hordes.

Forms of horde

Singularhorde /hɔːd/
Pluralhordes
Countablecountable

Hordes in a sentence

  • If you are among those behatted hordes and live in Texas, chances are yours is a Resistol.1984, Peter Applebome, “Texas Primer: The Resistol Hat”, in Texas Monthly, 6/1984. From the entry behatted
  • This is worse than hordes of WebTVers posting in html.2023 August 10, El Kabong, “Dear Michael”, in alt.atheism (Usenet), archived from the original on 08 Dec 2025. From the entry WebTVer
  • Rather than hire hordes of people to click banner ads, some website operators run automated programs known as autoclick software.2006, Wally Wang, Steal this Computer Book 4.0. From the entry autoclick
  • The singer had an electrifying and unpredictable onstage presence and a dry sense of humor that endeared him to hordes of adoring fans.2025 July 22, Kory Grow, “Ozzy Osbourne obituary: The Godfather of Heavy Metal who changed the world”, in Rolling Stone. From the entry electrifying
  • Compared to last year when hordes of prisoners died for Bakhmut, Russia's losses come in the majority now from the rows of mobniks.2023 November 21, Michael Weiss, Twitter. From the entry mobnik

Meaning 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.
  2. noun A large number of people or things.
  3. verb To travel en masse; to flock.

Full definition of horde

Questions about the plural of horde

What is the plural of horde?
The plural of horde is hordes.
Is horde countable?
Horde is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: horde (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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