swarm
noun
us
/swɔːrm/ uk
/swɔːm/A swarm of/Swarms of photographers followed the star's car.
Meaning of swarm in English
(Definition of swarm from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
swarm | Intermediate English
In summer, mosquitoes swarm around that pond.
The playground swarmed with little kids.
Examples of swarm
swarm
First, from far away, comes a high whine like angry insects swarming, and then a trampling, like a herd moving through.
From The Atlantic
Forget the hotels and the canned tours swarming with tourists in tube socks.
From Huffington Post
We saw an angry group of young men swarming over the remains of a building.
From New York Post
Are there plants that seem immune to the swarms?
From NPR
Swarm has the look of a tool that we'd see from a modern services provider.
From TechCrunch
Armies have swarmed out of all three continents to meet here -- and now, in the twenty-first century, they arrive from a fourth continent, too.
From NPR
But dreamers didn't let go, with about 75,000 people swarming to auditions in five cities this season.
From OCRegister
As soon as the boat was anchored, these men swarmed across the deck, ants on a sugar pile, working in organized teams.
From Slate Magazine
It doesn't take much imagination to conjure a future in which a swarm of those robots are used on a battlefield.
From NPR
They swarm through the real world, exerting massive influence.
From Huffington Post
Heavily-armed cops swarmed a police parking garage after a masked man was spotted nearby -- but the search came up empty.
From New York Daily News
The swarm, the worst in two decades, is being blamed on the drought.
From ABC News
Swarms of police rushed to the scene and quickly detained the suspects.
From CNN
From swarming bees to clustering bacteria colonies, nature stuns with its ability to self organize and perform collective, dynamic behaviors.
From Phys.Org
The other is the swarm of marketing events that companies, organizations and governments throw to coax a headline or two out of visiting journalists.
From USA TODAY
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kalabalık, yığın, küme…
essaim [masculine], affluer, bourdonner…
群（む）れ, 群（むら）がる…
zwerm, zwermen, krioelen…
roj, spousta, dav…
sværm, flok, sværme…
kelompok serangga, orang banyak, berkelompok…
ฝูงแมลง, กลุ่มคนหรือสัตว์จำนวนมากมาย, รวมเป็นฝูง…
đàn, đám, bầy…
rój, roić się, tłoczyć się…
svärm, myller, vimmel…
kawan, kumpulan besar, sekawan…
der Schwarm, schwärmen, wimmeln…
sverm [masculine], strømme, sverme…
рій, зграя, маса…
рой, толпиться…
