different between horde vs gaggle

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 horse–hoarse merger) enPR: h?rd, IPA^(key): /ho(?)?d/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse 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

English

Etymology

From Middle English gagelen (“to cackle; cackle like a goose”). Compare Dutch gaggelen (“to cackle”), Icelandic gagl (“small goose; gosling”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æ?l?/
• Rhymes: -æ??l
• Hyphenation: gag?gle

Noun

gaggle (plural gaggles)

1. (collective) A group of geese when they are on the ground or on the water.
2. (by extension) Any group or gathering of related things.

   Synonym: bunch

Derived terms

• press gaggle

Translations

Verb

gaggle (third-person singular simple present gaggles, present participle gaggling, simple past and past participle gaggled)

1. To make a noise like a goose; to cackle.

   • Geese do gaggle

   • 1733, Jonathan Swift, "A New Simile for the Ladies with Useful Annotations by Dr. Sheridan", note 7 (in The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Vol. II):

     When a friend asked Socrates, how he could bear the scolding of his wife Xantippe? he retorted, and asked him, how he could bear the gaggling of his geese?

Translations

See also

• skein
• wedge