Yahoo Canada Web Search

Search results

1. Dictionary

   swarm

   /swɔːm/

   noun

   • 1. a large or dense group of flying insects: "a swarm of locusts"
   • ▪ a large number of honeybees that leave a hive en masse with a newly fertilized queen in order to establish a new colony. Similar hiveflightflockcovey
   • ▪ a large number of people or things: "a swarm of journalists" Similar crowdmultitudehordehostmobgangthrongstreammassbodybandarmytrooplegionflockherdpackdroveseaarraymyriadpileknotclustergroup
   • ▪ a series of similar-sized earthquakes occurring together, typically near a volcano.
   • ▪ a large number of minor celestial objects occurring together in space, especially a dense shower of meteors.

   verb

   • 1. (of flying insects) move in or form a swarm: "a plague of locusts swarmed across the countryside"
   • ▪ (of honeybees, ants, or termites) issue from the nest in large numbers in order to mate and found new colonies: "the bees had swarmed and left the hive"
   • 2. move somewhere in large numbers: "protesters were swarming into the building"

   Word Origin Old Englishswearm (noun), of Germanic origin; related to German Schwarm, probably also to the base of Sanskrit svarati ‘it sounds’.

   Scrabble Points: 10

   • S

     1

   • W

     4

   • A

     1

   • R

     1

   • M

     3

   Powered by Oxford Dictionaries

   More definitions, origin and scrabble points