swarm

noun/swɔrm/

Frequency rank: #8,258 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

a large group of insects or people moving together in a mass

Illustration for the English word “swarm”

Example sentence

Hundreds of bees left the hive in one giant swarm that darkened the sky.

Synonyms & related words

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