" Main Entry:1swarm
- Pronunciation:
- \ˈswȯrm\
- Function:
- noun
- Etymology:
- Middle English, from Old English swearm; akin to Old High German swaram swarm and probably to Latin susurrus hum
- Date:
- before 12th century 1 a: a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere b: a colony of honeybees settled in a hive2 a: a large number of animate or inanimate things massed together and usually in motion : throng <swarms of sightseers> swarm of locusts> swarm of meteors> b: a number of similar geological features or phenomena close together in space or time swarm of dikes>
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