1. A large number of things or people considered together.
2. An informal body of friends; SYN. crew, gang, bunch.

ETYM AS. drâf, from drîfan to drive. Related to Drive.
1. A chisel with a broad edge for dressing stone; SYN. drove chisel.
2. A group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together.
3. A moving crowd; SYN. horde, swarm.

(Homonym: heard).
1. A group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans.
2. A group of wild animals of one species that remain together: antelope or elephants or seals or whales or zebra.

ETYM French horde (cf. German horde), from Turk. ordű, ordî, camp; of Tartar origin.
(Homonym: hoard).
1. A nomadic community.
2. A vast multitude; SYN. host, legion.

A disorderly crowd of people; SYN. rabble, rout.

ETYM French multitude, Latin multitudo, multitudinis, from multus much, many; of unknown origin.
1. A large gathering of people; SYN. throng, concourse.
2. The common people generally; SYN. masses, mass, hoi polloi, people.

Disparaging terms for the common people; SYN. riffraff, ragtag, ragtag and bobtail.
Device for stirring molten iron in a furnace

ETYM Old Eng. throng, thrang, as. gethrang, from thringan to crowd, to press.
1. A multitude of persons or of living beings crowed together; a crowd; a mob.
2. A great multitude.