swarm

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. A large number of insects, especially when in motion or (for bees) migrating to a new colony.
2. A mass of people, animals or things in motion or turmoil.
3. A group of nodes sharing the same torrent in a BitTorrent network.
4. A number of small earthquakes (or other seismic events) occurring, with no clear cause, in a specific area within a relatively short space of time.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To move as a swarm.
2. (intransitive) To teem, or be overrun with insects, people, etc.
3. (transitive) To fill a place as a swarm.
4. (transitive) To overwhelm as by an opposing army.
5. To climb by gripping with arms and legs alternately.
6. To breed multitudes.

Concepts

essaim

masse

essaimer

nuée

foule

fourmiller

grouiller

tas

groupe

grouillement

pulluler

se rassembler

amas

rassembler

rassemblement

horde

volée

bande

crouth

banc

cohue

grouper

massif

nuage

☁️

racaille

🧑‍🤝‍🧑

se grouper

troupe

troupeau

marée humaine

s’attrouper

vol d’oiseaux

crwth

affluer

Synonymes

flock

crowd

throng

herd

gather

teem

horde

mass

mob

group

multitude

school

🏫

stream

shoal

flight

✈️

bevy

drove

heap

pack

pullulate

congregate

crowd around

mill about

cluster

troop

cloud

☁️

assemble

rabble

pile

company

come together

collection

body

gaggle

cluster around

circle

⭕

pod

hive

crowd round

colony

band

accumulation

huddle

assemblage

surge

pour

pride

covey

team

army

Traductions

Schwarm

enjambre

sciame

multidão

menigte

zwerm

muchedumbre

enxame

zwermen

schwärmen

wemelen

wriemelen

massa

krielen

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/swɔɹm/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: swarm

Hérité de ancien anglais: swearm

Appartenant à saterlandais: Swoorm

Appartenant à néerlandais: zwerm

Appartenant à allemand: Schwarm

Appartenant à danois: sværm

Appartenant à suédois: svärm

Appartenant à islandais: svarmur

Appartenant à latin: susurrus

Appartenant à lituanien: surma

Appartenant à russe: свире́ль

Hérité de moyen anglais: swarmen

Hérité de ancien anglais: swierman

Appartenant à écossais: swairm

Appartenant à néerlandais: zwermen

Appartenant à allemand: schwärmen

Appartenant à danois: sværme

Appartenant à suédois: svärma

In summary

From Middle English swarm, from Old English swearm (“swarm, multitude”), from Proto-West Germanic *swarm, from Proto-Germanic *swarmaz (“swarm, dizziness”), from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“to buzz, hum”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Swoorm (“swarm”), Dutch zwerm, German Schwarm, Danish sværm, Swedish svärm, Icelandic svarmur (“tumult, swarm”), Latin susurrus (“whispering, humming”), Lithuanian surma (“a pipe”), Russian свире́ль (svirélʹ, “a pipe, reed”).
The verb is from Middle English swarmen, swermen, from Old English swirman (“to swarm”), from Proto-West Germanic *swarmijan, from Proto-Germanic *swarmijaną (“to swarm”), from the noun. Cognate with Scots swairm, swerm (“to swarm”), Dutch zwermen, German schwärmen, Danish sværme, Swedish svärma.