Swarm meaning
A large number of insects or other small organisms, especially when in motion.
noun
A group of bees, social wasps, or ants, when migrating with a queen to establish a new colony.
noun
An aggregation of persons or animals, especially when in turmoil or moving in mass.
A swarm of friends congratulated him.
noun
To be overrun; teem.
A riverbank swarming with insects.
verb
To move or emerge in a swarm.
verb
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To leave a hive as a swarm. Used of bees.
verb
To fill with a crowd.
Sailors swarming the ship's deck.
verb
To climb by gripping with the arms and legs.
verb
To climb (something) in this manner.
verb
A moving mass, crowd, or throng.
A swarm of onlookers.
noun
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A large number of bees, led by a queen, leaving one hive for another to start a new colony.
noun
A colony of bees in a hive.
noun
Any large number of social insects moving in a group.
A swarm of ants.
noun
To gather and fly off in a swarm.
verb
To move, collect, be present, etc. in large numbers; throng; abound.
verb
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To be filled or crowded; teem.
verb
To fill with a swarm; crowd; throng.
verb
To act as a swarm in surrounding, attacking, dealing with, etc.
To swarm the quarterback, researchers swarming a problem.
verb
To climb (a tree, mast, pole, etc.) using the hands and feet; shin (up)
verb
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(intransitive) To move as a swarm.
verb
To fill a place as a swarm.
verb
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To breed multitudes.
verb
Swarm is to move in a huge, overwhelming group all at once, or to be crowded and overrun.
When hundreds of bees fly out all at once, this is an example of when they swarm.
When a concert is overcrowded with people and they are packed in tight and moving about, this is an example of when the concert swarms with people.
verb
The definition of a swarm is a large number of people or insects, especially honey bees.
When 2000 people all show up for a protest, this is an example of a swarm.
When hundreds of honeybees fly out of their nest, this is an example of a swarm.
noun
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A number of similar geologic phenomena or features occurring closely within a given period or place.
A swarm of earthquakes.
noun
To move or gather in large numbers.
Shoppers have swarmed into the mall.
verb
Origin of swarm
From Middle English swarm, from Old English swearm (“swarm, multitude"), from Proto-Germanic *swarmaz (“swarm, dizziness"), from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“to buzz, hum"). Cognate with Scots swarm (“swarm"), Dutch zwerm (“swarm"), German Schwarm (“swarm"), Danish sværm (“swarm"), Swedish svärm (“swarm"), Icelandic svarmur (“tumult, swarm"), Latin susurrus (“whispering, humming"), Lithuanian surma (“a pipe"), Russian Ñвирель (svirel', “a pipe, reed").