swarm: Meaning and Definition of

swarm

1. a body of honeybees that emigrate from a hive and fly off together, accompanied by a queen, to start a new colony.
2. a body of bees settled together, as in a hive.
3. a great number of things or persons, esp. in motion.
4. a group or aggregation of free-floating or free-swimming cells or organisms.
5. a cluster of earthquakes or other geologic phenomena or features.

1. to fly off together in a swarm, as bees.
2. to move about, along, forth, etc., in great numbers, as things or persons.
3. to congregate, hover, or occur in groups or multitudes; be exceedingly numerous, as in a place or area.
4. (of a place) to be thronged or overrun; abound or teem: The beach swarms with children on summer weekends.
5. to move or swim about in a swarm.

1. to swarm about, over, or in; throng; overrun.
2. to produce a swarm of.

swarm

1. to climb by clasping with the legs and hands or arms and drawing oneself up; shin.