swarm
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a moving crowd
Types & categories
- crowd hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
be teeming, be abuzz
The garden was swarming with bees
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Sense 3 noun
a group of many things in the air or on the ground
a swarm of insects obscured the light
Types & categories
- group hypernym
- infestation hyponym
Parts & wholes
- insect member meronym
Related & opposite
- swarm derivation
Sense 4 verb
move in large numbers
people were pouring out of the theater
Types & categories
- crowd together hypernym
- spill out hyponym
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | swarm |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | swarm |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | crowd |
| 2 | also see | Related & opposite | abound in |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | swarm |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | swarm |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | seethe |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | crawl |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | swarm |
| 3 | member meronym | Parts & wholes | insect |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | group |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | infestation |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | swarm |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | stream |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | crowd together |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | spill out |