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Synonyms for swarm

Synonyms for swarm: cloud and horde. 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.

2 synonyms · Tier 1, Foothills · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line

The 2 synonyms for swarm

Interchangeable with swarm in this sense

Audited under swarm's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one swarm carries in that sense.

cloudnoun, in the sense "a large number of insects moving together in a mass"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

These entries were written under the other word and name swarm as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.

hordehorde is a noun in the sense "a large, disorganized group of people or animals"

one of these comes from swarm's own entry in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.

The sensenounTier 1, FoothillsNature

a large number of insects moving together in a mass

A swarm of bees drifted past the hive entrance.

The sentence the game shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

cloud

Same sentence, swapped: A cloud of bees drifted past the hive entrance.

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 swarm in the sentence quoted.

herd
litter
brood

Where swarm turns up in the game

swarm 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 swarm

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so swarm reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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