According to Guinness World Records, the largest coffee shop is the Al Masaa Café, which has 1,050 seats. The coffee shop was inaugurated in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 13 August 2014.
HORDE
horde, host, legion
(noun) a vast multitude
drove, horde, swarm
(noun) a moving crowd
horde
(noun) a nomadic community
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
horde (plural hordes)
A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people (originally Tatars) migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude.
A large number of people.
Verb
horde (third-person singular simple present hordes, present participle hordeing or hording, simple past and past participle horded)
to travel en masse, to flock
Usage notes
• Sometimes confused with hoard.
Anagrams
• Herod, Rhode, Rohde
Source: Wiktionary
Horde, n. Etym: [F. horde (cf. G. horde), fr. Turk. ord, ordi, camp; of Tartar origin.]
Definition: A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude. Thomson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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