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The earliest known use of the verb swarm is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for swarm is from around 1386, in the writing of Geoffrey Chaucer, poet and administrator. It is also recorded as a noun from the Old English period (pre-1150).
The meaning of SWARM is a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere. How to use swarm in a sentence.
8 meanings: 1. a group of social insects, esp bees led by a queen, that has left the parent hive in order to start a new colony.... Click for more definitions.
A flock of auklets exhibit swarm behaviour. Swarm behaviour, or swarming, is a collective behaviour exhibited by entities, particularly animals, of similar size which aggregate together, perhaps milling about the same spot or perhaps moving en masse or migrating in some direction. It is a highly interdisciplinary topic. [1]
A swarm is a good word for a large group of bees going on the attack — not good news. Like bees, any group of people or animals can be considered a swarm if they act together and quickly — even fiercely.
SWARM definition: 1. a large group of insects all moving together: 2. a large group of people all moving together…. Learn more.
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Nov 8, 2023 · swarm (v.1) "climb (a tree, pole, etc.) by clasping with the arms and legs alternately; to shin," 1540s, a word of uncertain origin. "Perh. orig. a sailor's word borrowed from the Continent, but no trace of the meaning has been discovered for phonetically corresponding words" [OED, 2nd ed. print, 1989].
