Horde vs Meeting - What's the difference?
horde | meeting | 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
(uncountable) The action of the verb to meet .
A gathering of people/parties for a purpose.
The people at such a gathering, as a collective.
An encounter between people, even accidental.
A place or instance of junction or intersection.
A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.
*1939 , (John Steinbeck), (The Grapes of Wrath) , p. 20:
*:You use ta give a good meetin' . I recollect one time you give a whole sermon walkin' around on your hands, yellin' your head off.
Horde is a related term of meeting.
As verbs the difference between horde and meeting
is that horde is while meeting is .As an adjective horde
is .As a noun meeting is
(uncountable) the action of the verb to meet .horde
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.
Derived terms
* * *Usage notes
* Sometimes confused with hoard.Anagrams
* * English collective nouns ----meeting
English
Verb
(head)Noun
- We need to have a meeting about that soon.
- What has the meeting decided.
- They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work.
- Earthquakes occur at the meeting of tectonic plates.