Synonyms for swarm
swɔrmswarm

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1. swarm

   Group is the general word for any gathering of a small number of objects, whether of persons, animals, or inanimate things. The individuals in a brood or litter are related to each other; those in the other groups may not be. Brood is used chiefly of fowls and birds, litter of certain quadrupeds which bring forth many young at a birth; we speak of a brood of chickens, a litter of puppies; brood is sometimes applied to a family of young children. Bevy is used of birds, and figuratively of any bright and lively group of women or children, but rarely of men. Flock is applied to birds and to some of the smaller animals; herd is confined to the larger animals; we speak of a bevy of quail, a covey of partridges, a flock of blackbirds, or a flock of sheep, a herd of cattle, horses, buffaloes, or elephants, a pack of wolves, a pack of hounds, a swarm of bees. A collection of animals driven or gathered for driving is called a drove.

   Synonyms:
   bevy, brood, covey, drove, flock, group, hatch, herd, litter, lot, pack, set

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.4 / 5 votes

1. swarm

   Synonyms:
   multitude, crowd, throng, cluster, host, mass, press, posse, bevy, flock, troop, drove, herd, horde, crew, gang, shoal, army, host, regiment, myriad, inundation

   Antonyms:
   paucity, sprinkling, scantling, rarity

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1. drove, horde, swarmnoun

   a moving crowd

   Synonyms:
   legion, cloud, drove chisel, horde, drove, host

2. swarm, cloudverb

   a group of many things in the air or on the ground

   "a swarm of insects obscured the light"; "clouds of blossoms"; "it discharged a cloud of spores"

   Synonyms:
   drove, cloud, horde

3. teem, pullulate, swarmverb

   be teeming, be abuzz

   "The garden was swarming with bees"; "The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen"; "her mind pullulated with worries"

   Synonyms:
   teem, spud, sprout, pullulate, pour, germinate, bourgeon, shoot, burgeon forth, stream

4. pour, swarm, stream, teem, pullulateverb

   move in large numbers

   "people were pouring out of the theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza"

   Synonyms:
   pelt, burgeon forth, bourgeon, teem, shoot, pour, rain buckets, spud, stream, decant, pour out, germinate, sprout, rain cats and dogs, pullulate, well out

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. swarmnoun

   Synonyms:
   multitude (especially of winged insects), crowd, throng, concourse

2. swarmverb

   Synonyms:
   crowd, throng, gather in a swarm

3. swarmverb

   Synonyms:
   be crowded, be thronged, be filled

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. swarmverb

   Synonyms:
   teem

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1. List of paraphrases for "swarm":

   hive, cloud

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1. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus:

   What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

2. Cynthia Martin:

   Thank you so much for your help, my first swarm that I actually captured!

3. Christian Yates:

   If we can somehow increase the external noise that these locusts are experiencing then we might be able to break up the swarm, isolate the individuals, and deprive them of the benefits of being in a swarm.

4. Mark Kaigwa:

   You have a swarm of developers who are looking at business-to-consumer apps but with no roadmap.

5. Michael Tiffany:

   The ad industry was treating the bots as a faceless swarm, what no one was anticipating is that the bots are extremely effective of looking like a high value consumer.