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Synonyms for swarm
swɔrmswarm
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
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 Antonyms
Princeton's WordNet
drove, horde, swarmnoun
a moving crowd
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"
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, streampour, 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 Synonymes
swarmnoun
Synonyms:
multitude (especially of winged insects), crowd, throng, concourseswarmverb
Synonyms:
crowd, throng, gather in a swarmswarmverb
Synonyms:
be crowded, be thronged, be filled
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
swarmverb
Synonyms:
teem
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#181 | group | |
#189 | set | |
#422 | press | |
#748 | lot | |
#1570 | pack | |
#1656 | host | |
#1840 | army | |
#2009 | mass | |
#2094 | stream | |
#3384 | crew | |
#4228 | gang | |
#4561 | pour | |
#4644 | cluster | |
#5175 | shoot | |
#5598 | crowd | |
#5621 | cloud | |
#9421 | drove | |
#11770 | hatch | |
#12134 | litter | |
#12251 | regiment | |
#13753 | horde | |
#14046 | legion | |
#14443 | herd | |
#14989 | troop | |
#15058 | flock | |
#15954 | multitude | |
#18403 | myriad | |
#24145 | swarm | |
#25681 | brood | |
#25731 | posse | |
#26690 | hive | |
#31834 | covey | |
#34743 | sprout | |
#42762 | shoal | |
#43852 | spud | |
#48280 | pelt | |
#50398 | throng | |
#64094 | inundation | |
#66123 | teem | |
#67452 | germinate | |
#68430 | bevy | |
#130607 | decant |
How to use swarm in a sentence?
What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.
It is built on the biological concept of say a swarm of bees, for example, where you can see a lot of them fly as a group but they do not run into each other. They manage some type of coordinated activity between them in order to be able to navigate successfully.
The high reconfigurability is a key discovery, the nanobot swarm can be operated in a controlled fashion with a high speed, which has never been reported before.
Aziz is highly critical of the Pakistani government but Islamabad knows he commands a sizable following and claim they have no legal grounds to arrest or convict him. Ultimately, they’ve decided it’s best to avoid stirring the hornet’s nest, even if means quietly allowing the swarm to proliferate, ideally, Pakistan would pass legislation or criminal justice reforms outlawing the type of hate speech espoused by Aziz and his ilk, and then deal with them through the appropriate legal mechanisms.
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.
Translations for swarm
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- سربArabic
- ройBelarusian
- ройBulgarian
- rojCzech
- sværmDanish
- SchwarmGerman
- εσμός, όχλος, στίφος, σμήνοςGreek
- multitud, muchedumbre, enjambre, masa, aglomeraciónSpanish
- kiivetä, parvi, lauma, vyöryä, vyöryttääFinnish
- essaim, grouillement, nuéeFrench
- sluagh, sgaothScottish Gaelic
- mászik, horda, raj, hemzseg, sokaságHungarian
- պարս, վխտալArmenian
- sciame, pullulare, nugoloItalian
- 群れ, 群衆Japanese
- ngahue, rearea, ngahuaMāori
- ројMacedonian
- zwerm, massa, menigteDutch
- mrowie, rójPolish
- roda-viva, turba, tropel, enxame, correição, barafunda, nuvem, turbamulta, turbilhão, multidãoPortuguese
- roiRomanian
- карабкаться, толпа, стая, ройRussian
- roj, ројSerbo-Croatian
- rojSlovak
- rojSlovene
- svärmSwedish
- janaSwahili
- ฝูงThai
- рій, натовп, кишіти, юрбаUkrainian
- kümamVolapük
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