Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

yellow horde

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.21 in modern English

Syllables: yel-low horde
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

East Asian nations or people, especially the people of China or Japan, conceived as foreign and menacing due to their vast population, non-Western cultures, or supposed antagonism to the West.

Derogatory

Example Sentences

"As we rode slowly over the Lunghai Line toward Sianfu, across the brown sun-baked plains of Northern Honan, soon to be flooded when the Chinese breached the Yellow River dikes to stop the advancing Yellow Horde, we passed many troop trains en-route to the front."
"So the Chinese and Central Asians are the barbaric, faceless, yellow horde that may once again drown the noble Slavs."

Usage

Derogatory

Inflected Forms

yellow hordes (plural)

Phrases

yellow peril

Frequently Paired Words

yellow peril

Questions

What does yellow horde mean?: East Asian nations or people, especially the people of China or Japan, conceived as foreign and menacing due to their vast population, non-Western cultures, or supposed antagonism to the West.

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