Horde vs Corps - What's the difference?
horde | corps | Related terms |
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.
A large number of people.
* 1907 , Jack London, Before Adam , page Chapter IV
(military) A battlefield formation composed of two or more divisions.
An organized group of people united by a common purpose.
* diplomatic corps
* White House press corps
Horde is a related term of corps.
As an adjective horde
is .As a verb horde
is .As a noun corps is
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English
Noun
(en noun)- We were beset by a horde of street vendors who thought we were tourists and would buy their cheap souvenirs.
- It is true, the more progressive members of our horde lived in the caves above the river.