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

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1. swarmverb

   Synonyms:
   teem

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1. List of paraphrases for "swarm":

   hive, cloud

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1. Mica Endsley:

   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.

2. Ethan Schaler:

   My idea is, where can we take miniaturized robotics and apply them in interesting new ways for exploring our solar system ? with a swarm of small swimming robots, we are able to explore a much larger volume of ocean water and improve our measurements by having multiple robots collecting data in the same area.

3. Jeff Smith:

   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.

4. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus:

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

5. Danielle Hecker:

   We've just been cutting people's trees down in their yard because the insurance isn't going to cover that and we've been taking care of that and we've been going through like a swarm of locusts taking all these trees down.