The Difference Between ‘Hoard’ and ‘Horde’

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store can be a noun or a verb, referring to the provision of something hidden or the act of collecting and storing said supply. ONE hoarder are often the ones who obsessively and unnecessarily keep things they don’t need. herdon the other hand, refers to a large group of loosely organized people. Often crowd carries the meaning of wild or fierce.

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Five-letter homonyms store And crowd are sometimes confused with each other.

How to use ‘hoard’

store can be both a noun and a verb. ONE store of something is a hidden supply:

As it turns out, the rare artifact that caught McLennan’s eye was just the tip of the archaeological iceberg: He and two friends came across a store of more than 100 gold and silver objects—one of the largest hoards of Viking artifacts ever found in the United Kingdom. — Nora McGreevy, SmithsonianDecember 16, 2020

In 1970, the Illinois State Capitol was stunned, bewildered, and stunned by the revelation that the late Secretary of State Paul Powell had left a store more than $800,000 in cash ($5.2 million today) in his Springfield apartment. The announcement was made by John S. Rendleman, president of Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. “He must have saved money when he was young,” said Democratic state auditor Michael J. Howlett. — News-Gazette (Champaign-Urbana, Illinois), December 31, 2020

Verb store means to collect something and keep it as a supply.

While there is no hope during the pandemic crisis, 2020 has shown us all the value of being prepared. In the early days of the pandemic, we panicked, store toilet paper and pack our pantry to deal with the uncertainty of shutdown. — Tara Parker-Pope, New York TimesJanuary 7, 2021

And while recent vaccine deployments are good news for places like the United States, some advocates fear life-saving drugs are being undermined. store by rich countries, while the world’s poorest countries will have to wait months and possibly years to see any dose. — Petra Cahill, NBC NewsDecember 16, 2020

How to Use the ‘Holder’

Noun hoarder used for people who have an obsession with collecting large amounts of something or many things for which the person has no real need, usually because the person cannot bear the thought of having to part with it . Obsessive hoarding is characterized as a psychological disorder.

People who are hoarder Struggling to get rid of or part with assets that others consider useless. They collect and store a large amount of furniture, which affects the function and safety of their home. When asked why, they will express the belief that the object has monetary or emotional value, or that they may be useful in the future. — Lincoln-Star MagazineAugust 15, 2020

How to use ‘Horde’

Noun crowd refers to a nomadic tribe, or more broadly, a large group of loosely organized individuals.

In “A Certain Doom,” Hurst’s Beta suffers a very specific doom in the form of a layered death scene. Lead Whisperers and a crowd of zombies toward Alexandrian survivors, Beta meets her creator at the hands of Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Daryl (Norman Reedus), not to mention the hands of several dozen undead. —Josh Wigler, hollywood reporterOctober 4, 2020

Van Osburgh’s wedding was held at the village church near the family estate on the Hudson River. It was a “simple country wedding” in which the guests were escorted on special trains, and from there crowd of the uninvited must be fended off by police intervention. – Wharton Editor, Mirth’s house1905

Freshman Matthew Hurt has had a career match, with 25 points ahead of Boston College, and his teammates are making sure he isn’t too cocky as the media surrounds him. Duke’s players threw things and shouted at him when the media crowd into position, then chanted “yes, okay” as he started talking to the press. — Shawn Krest, Sports IllustratedJanuary 2, 2020

The Golden Horde is the name given to the group of Turks and Mongols (Tatars) that controlled the western part of the Mongol Empire during the 14th and 15th centuries, eventually occupying parts of Eastern Europe and Russia. From this association, crowd implies a mob or army whose members are as fierce as warriors and perhaps untrained, and are out to invade an area or aspire to something. Its use becomes somewhat comical when used on non-threatening types of people like an actual army (as in “a bunch of teenage fans”).

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store And crowd sometimes get confused, so you can see where “a large number of shoppers” are crowd would be appropriate (though those shoppers may be hoarding), or conversely, “a pile of treasures” instead of store (although the treasures can be looted by a mob).

Middle line store And crowd becomes especially fuzzy when the word is used simply to refer to a large amount of something abstract, such as in reason or problem. Unless you’re dealing with living things, store is the preferred spelling.

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