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Synonyms for horde
Synonyms for horde: swarm and throng. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for horde
Interchangeable with horde in this sense
Audited under horde's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one horde carries in that sense.
- swarmnoun, in the sense "a large, disorganized group of people or animals"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name horde as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- throngthrong is a noun in the sense "a large, densely packed crowd of people"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under horde and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
a large, disorganized group of people or animals.
A horde of tourists poured off the cruise ship the moment it docked.
The true synonym
swarm
Same sentence, swapped: A swarm of tourists poured off the cruise ship the moment it docked.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for horde in the sentence quoted.
- queue
- delegation
- crew
Where horde turns up in the game
horde is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play horde
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so horde reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from groups and collections at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. horde carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.