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群れ

group: 一定のつながりを持った人や動物の集団

crowd: 人の集団。群衆

herd: 獣の群れ

flock: 鳥、羊の群れ

school: 魚の群れ

swarm: 虫の群れ

pack: 猟犬・オオカミの群れ

pride: ライオンの群れ

flight: 飛んでいる鳥の群れ

drove: 移動中の羊・ウシなどの家畜の群れ

troop: 移動中のサル、アリなどの群れ

a large or dense group of insects, especially flying ones.

〖しばしばa ～ of A〗 A〈昆虫･動物など〉の群れ, 大群

a large number of honeybees that leave a hive en masse with a newly fertilized queen in order to establish a new colony.

(巣別れする)ミツバチの群れ

(a swarm of/swarms of) a large number of people or things:

(すばやく動き回る人の)群れ, 群衆, 大勢

e.g. a swarm of journalists.

a series of similar-sized earthquakes occurring together, typically near a volcano.

群発地震

Astronomy a large number of minor celestial objects occurring together in space, especially a dense shower of meteors.

1. no object (of insects) move in or form a swarm:

〖～＋副詞〗 〈人･昆虫が〉群がって移動する; 群がる; うようよする (!〖副詞〗は場所･方向の表現)

e.g. (as adjective swarming) : swarming locusts.

(of honeybees, ants, or termites) issue from the nest in large numbers with a newly fertilized queen in order to found new colonies:

〈ミツバチなどが〉群がって巣別れする; «…から» 群がって行く［飛ぶ］ «out of»

e.g. the bees had swarmed and left the hive.

2. no object, with adverbial move somewhere in large numbers:

e.g. protesters were swarming into the building.

(swarm with) (of a place) be crowded or overrun with (moving people or things):

〖通例be ～ing〗 〈場所が〉 【移動する人･動物の群れなどで】いっぱいになる «with»

e.g. the place was swarming with police.

climb (something) rapidly by gripping it with one's hands and feet, alternately hauling and pushing oneself upward:

e.g. I swarmed up the mast.

Old English swearm (noun), of Germanic origin; related to German Schwarm, probably also to the base of Sanskrit svarati ‘it sounds’.