noun
- large numbers of people or things moving together or considered as a group
Usage: plural form; often used with ‘in’
Examples
- Tourists arrived in droves for the summer festival.
- The new restaurant attracted customers in droves.
- Droves of students gathered outside the library.
- After the announcement, people left the meeting in droves.
- The sale brought shoppers in droves to the mall.
- Droves of birds migrated south for the winter.