English-Portuguese translations for horde

• horda
  Muitos Europeus têm a impressão de que uma horda de Tunisinos se está a dirigir para o sul de Itália. Many Europeans are under the impression that a horde of Tunisians are heading for southern Italy.
  Não temos lá fora hordas de elementos da comunicação social a comunicar a feliz notícia, mas creio que ela é digna de menção. We don't have hordes of media folk standing outside to report this joyful news, but I think it bears mentioning.
  No preciso momento em que hordas de requerentes de asilo da Berbéria invadem a União Europeia, temos de tornar os pedidos de asilo mais difíceis e não mais fáceis. At the very moment that hordes of asylum seekers from Barbary are storming the European Union, we have to make asylum applications harder, not easier.
• multidão

Definition of horde

• A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude
• to travel en masse, to flock

Examples

• We were beset by a horde of street vendors who thought we were tourists and would buy their cheap souvenirs.

Related words

• hordeolum
• chordee
• Horden
• hordeum
• Golden Horde
• yellow horde