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horde

English

Etymology

Recorded in English since 1555. From Middle French horde, from German Horde, from Polish horda, from Russian ???? (orda, horde", 'clan, troop'), probably from Kipchak Turkic (compare Tatar ???? (urda, horde)), from Proto-Turkic *or- (army, place of staying of the army, ruler etc.). Cognates include Turkish ordu (camp, army), Mongolian ??? (ord, court, castle, royal compound, camp, horde), Kalmyk ???? (orda) and English Urdu.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: hôd, IPA(key): /h??d/
  • (General American) enPR: hôrd, IPA(key): /h??d/
  • (rhotic, without the horsehoarse merger) enPR: h?rd, IPA(key): /ho(?)?d/
  • (non-rhotic, without the horsehoarse merger) IPA(key): /ho?d/
  • Rhymes: -??(?)d
  • Homophones: hoard, whored

Noun

horde (plural hordes)

  1. 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. A large number of people or things.
    We were beset by a horde of street vendors who thought we were tourists and would buy their cheap souvenirs.
    • 1907, Jack London, Before Adam, page Chapter IV
      It is true, the more progressive members of our horde lived in the caves above the river.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

horde (third-person singular simple present hordes, present participle hording or hordeing, simple past and past participle horded)

  1. to travel en masse, to flock

Usage notes

  • Sometimes confused with hoard.

Anagrams

  • Herod, Rhode, Rohde

Danish

Etymology

From German Horde.

Noun

horde c (singular definite horden, plural indefinite horder)

  1. horde

Inflection


Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /???rd?/
  • Hyphenation: hor?de
  • Rhymes: -?rd?

Etymology 1

Noun

horde f (plural horden or hordes, diminutive hordetje n)

  1. A horde
  2. A troop of boy scouts, comprising no more than 24 cubs

Etymology 2

Noun

horde f (plural horden, diminutive hordetje n)

  1. A gross sieve
  2. A hurdle
Derived terms
  • hordeloop

References

  • M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

French

Pronunciation

  • (aspirated h) IPA(key): /??d/

Noun

horde f (plural hordes)

  1. A horde

Further reading

  • “horde” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English hord.

Noun

horde

  1. Alternative form of hord

Etymology 2

From Old English hordian.

Verb

horde

  1. Alternative form of horden

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From German Horde

Noun

horde m (definite singular horden, indefinite plural horder, definite plural hordene)

  1. a horde

References

  • “horde” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Upper Sorbian

Adjective

horde

  1. inflection of hordy:
    1. neuter nominative/accusative singular
    2. nominative/accusative plural

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corps

English

Etymology 1

From French corps d'armée (literally army body), from Latin corpus (body). Doublet of corpse and corpus. See also English riff.

Pronunciation

Singular
  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: , IPA(key): /k??/
  • (General American) enPR: kôr, IPA(key): /k??/
  • (rhotic, without the horsehoarse merger) enPR: k?r, IPA(key): /ko(?)?/
  • (non-rhotic, without the horsehoarse merger) IPA(key): /ko?/
  • Rhymes: -??(?)
  • Homophones: core, cor; caw (non-rhotic accents with the horse-hoarse merger)
Plural
  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kôz, IPA(key): /k??z/
  • (General American) enPR: kôrz, IPA(key): /k??z/
  • (rhotic, without the horsehoarse merger) enPR: k?rz, IPA(key): /ko(?)?z/
  • (non-rhotic, without the horsehoarse merger) IPA(key): /ko?z/
  • Rhymes: -??(?)z
  • Homophone: cores; cause, caws (non-rhotic accents with the horse-hoarse merger)

Noun

corps (plural corps)

  1. (military) A battlefield formation composed of two or more divisions.
  2. An organized group of people united by a common purpose.
    • diplomatic corps
    • White House press corps
Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Clipping.

Noun

corps

  1. plural of corp

Anagrams

  • S corp., crops, procs, scorp, sproc

Bourguignon

Etymology

From Latin corpus.

Noun

corps m (plural corps)

  1. body

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French corps, from Middle French cors, from Old French cors, from Latin corpus. Doublet of corpus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ko?r/
  • Hyphenation: corps

Noun

corps n (plural corpsen or corpora, diminutive corpsje n)

  1. student society, especially a traditional and hierarchical one
  2. Superseded spelling of korps.

Usage notes

Traditional student societies tend to prescribe the plural corpora, in regular language the plural corpsen is more common.

Synonyms

  • studentencorps
  • natie (historical)

Derived terms

  • corpsbal
  • corpslid
  • studentencorps

French

Etymology

From Middle French cors, from Old French cors, inherited from Latin corpus (body), from Proto-Indo-European *?rep-. The p was added back to reflect the Latin etymology. Doublet of corpus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /k??/
  • Homophones: cor, cors

Noun

corps m (plural corps)

  1. body
  2. (mathematics) field (in abstract algebra)
  3. (military) corps

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Karipúna Creole French:
  • ? Danish: korps
  • ? English: corps
  • ? Dutch: corps, korps
  • ? German: Korps
  • ? Norwegian Bokmål: korps
  • ? Norwegian Nynorsk: korps
  • ? Swedish: kår

Further reading

  • “corps” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

  • porcs

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