A horde can be a clan.
The Turkish word ordu , which can be translated as “military camp” , derived from the Mongolian orda , which in turn came to French as horde . This Gallic term is the immediate etymological antecedent of horde , a concept that, in our language, is used to refer to a group of wild nomads , according to the first meaning mentioned by the Royal Spanish Academy ( RAE ) in its dictionary.
The idea of horde is usually used in reference to a group similar to a tribe or clan . It may be a community whose members come together to protect each other. In ancient times, hordes were bands of hunter-gatherer individuals.
The concept of the horde throughout history
Specifically, in the Paleolithic we find hordes that were identified because they were made up of between 20 to 40 individuals, because they had the strongest person as their leader and because they were quite promiscuous. These situations gave rise to different conflicts between their members and the emergence, therefore, of another type of smaller group within them. We are referring to what is known as a tribe.
The notion of horde is often linked to social organizations that existed long ago in regions that today belong to countries such as Mongolia , China and Russia . Each of these hordes had between five and eighty members, generally related, who did not have a fixed residence. Within the group there were no pre-established norms and its leaders exercised power in an informal way.
The group of people who act with violence can be referred to as a horde.
The notion today
Currently, especially in colloquial language, a group of individuals that acts with violence and without respect for the laws is called a horde. It may be a group with a certain degree of organization or a spontaneous gathering of people.
For example: “A horde of fans of the local team caused destruction around the stadium” , “The singer's followers behaved like a horde, causing riots in front of the hotel” , “The police arrested fifteen people in the context of a confrontation between the security forces and a horde of militants from left-wing parties who were trying to enter the Legislative Palace.”
Movie "The Horde"
In addition to all the above, we cannot ignore the existence of a film that has the word that concerns us now in its title. We are referring to The Horde, a film of French origin, framed within the horror genre, which was released in 2009 under the direction of filmmakers Benjamin Rocher and Yannick Dahan.
Jean-Pierre Martins, Claude Perron, Eriq Ebouaney and Aurélien Recoing are some of the actors who led the cast of this feature film that takes the city of Paris as its setting and tells how a group of corrupt police officers are willing to avenge the death of one of his companions. Hence, police and criminals confront each other, but in that "battle" a horde of wild and cannibalistic creatures appear and do not hesitate to attack them in the building where they are fighting to the death.
Precisely a situation will be created that will ultimately make police and criminals have to join forces in order to survive against these evil and bloodthirsty beings.