horde vs hoard
Definitions
noun
- a nomadic community
- a moving crowd
- a vast multitude
Examples
When you see this poor guy being followed everywhere he goes by hordes of people, it's actually terribly sad.
It's one thing to get some exercise; it's something else to repeatedly, day after day, show off in spandex before a horde of newspapermen.
The locals will have to stay resolute in the face of the invading British hordes, but it's hard to imagine they would ever be willing to swap chorizo and fino for burgers and beer.
Definitions
verb
- save up as for future use
- get or gather together
noun
- a secret store of valuables or money
Examples
Since corporate America is more interested in hoarding than rehiring, the New Poor are going to be around for awhile.
And he had hoped to avoid all this; or rather to hoard this seeing for one final gulp from the mailboat rail.
They also come across a cryptogram, which is rather difficult to solve, but which eventually they manage to decypher, and which leads them to the treasure hoarded by the pirate, who by that time has met his end.
