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# swarm

«swarm» in Mova's school dictionary: **a big group of insects, such as bees, wasps or locusts…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a swarm, swarms); verb (swarm, swarms, swarmed, swarming)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A swarm is a big group of insects, such as bees, wasps or locusts, flying together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swarm/#m1)

2) A swarm of people is a large crowd moving together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swarm/#m2)

3) To swarm is to move in a large, busy group: bees swarmed around the hive. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swarm/#m3)

4) A place swarming with something is full of it: the beach was swarming with tourists. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swarm/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons, bees swarm when a new queen leaves with part of the colony; locust swarms eat crops. In safety lessons, keep still and walk away from a swarm of bees or wasps. In stories, crowds swarm into a place. Phrases: a swarm of bees, swarm around, swarming with.

### examples

- A swarm of bees flew out of the tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swarm/#x1)
- Locust swarms can eat a whole field of crops. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swarm/#x2)
- Fans swarmed onto the pitch after the match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swarm/#x3)
- The park was swarming with children. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swarm/#x4)
- If you see a swarm of wasps, walk away calmly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swarm/#x5)
- Flies swarmed around the bin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swarm/#x6)
- A swarm can hold thousands of bees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swarm/#x7)
- A swarm of hungry blood-sucking flies settled upon him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swarm/#x8)

### note

«A swarm of bees» takes a singular or plural verb: «a swarm of bees was/were buzzing». «Swarm with» means «be full of». Similar group words: a flock of birds, a herd of cows, a school of fish, a swarm of insects.

### In the corpora

- [Desert locusts are grasshoppers that, when crowded, change colour and behaviour and form swarms of billions that eat crops.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/37-butterflies-beetles-flies-mosquitoes-grasshoppers/16/)
- [In summer the tundra has huge swarms of mosquitoes, so thick that caribou run to windy hills or snow patches to escape them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/168-the-arctic-tundra-musk-oxen-arctic-foxes-and-the-truth-about-lemmings/14/)
- [A big locust swarm can eat as much food in a day as millions of people.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/290-insects-as-food-in-other-countries/17/)
- [And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; swarm in the earth, and multiply therein.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.224/)
- [All winged swarming things that go upon all fours are a detestable thing unto you.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.274/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «swarm» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swarm/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.