Meaning & use
droves
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Large numbers of people or animals moving together, typically in the same direction.
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Tourists arrived in droves once the festival was announced online.
Cattle were driven in droves toward the market at dawn.
A note on using this word
Almost always used in the fixed phrase 'in droves' to emphasize large, often sudden, numbers.
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