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Definition of 'herd'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) herd
a number of animals feeding, traveling, or kept together; drove; flock:
a herd of zebras; a herd of sheep; a herd of cattle.

2.  herd
a large group of people; crowd; mob:
a herd of autograph seekers.

3.  herd
a large group of things.

4.  herd
the herd, the common people; masses:
to follow the herd.

5. (v.i.) herd
to unite or move in a herd; assemble or associate as a herd.

6. (v.t.) herd
to gather into or as if into a herd.

7. (v.t.) herd
to tend, drive, or lead (cattle, sheep, etc.).

8.  herd
to conduct or drive (a group of people) to a destination.

Etymology: (bef. 900; ME herd(e),hirde, OE hierde, c. OHG hirti, ON hirthir, Go hairdeis; der. of herd¹)

Definition of 'herd'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) herd
a group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans

2. (noun) herd
a group of wild mammals of one species that remain together: antelope or elephants or seals or whales or zebra

3. (verb) ruck, herd
a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things
"his brilliance raised him above the ruck"; "the children resembled a fairy herd"

4. (verb) herd, crowd
cause to herd, drive, or crowd together
"We herded the children into a spare classroom"

5. (verb) herd
move together, like a herd

6. (verb) herd
keep, move, or drive animals
"Who will be herding the cattle when the cowboy dies?"

Definition of 'herd'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) herd
a group of animals that live together
a herd of cattle/reindeer/elephants

Definition of 'herd'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) herd
haired

2. (noun) herd
a number of beasts assembled together; as, a herd of horses, oxen, cattle, camels, elephants, deer, or swine; a particular stock or family of cattle

3. (noun) herd
a crowd of low people; a rabble

4. (noun) herd
one who herds or assembles domestic animals; a herdsman; -- much used in composition; as, a shepherd; a goatherd, and the like

5. (verb) herd
to unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company; as, sheep herd on many hills

6. (verb) herd
to associate; to ally one's self with, or place one's self among, a group or company

7. (verb) herd
to act as a herdsman or a shepherd

8. (verb) herd
to form or put into a herd

Translation of 'herd'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a group of animals of one kind that stay, or are kept, together a herd of cattle; a herd of elephant(s).
Afrikaans: trop, kudde	Arabic: قَطيع	Bulgarian: стадо
Brazilian: manada	Czech: stádo	German: die Herde
Danish: flok	Greek: κοπάδι, αγέλη	Spanish: rebaño, manada, piara
Estonian: kari	Farsi: رمه	Finnish: lauma
French: troupeau	Hebrew: עֶדֶר	Hindi: पशुओं का झुण्ड
Croatian: krdo, stoka	Hungarian: gulya, csorda	Indonesian: kawanan
Icelandic: hjörð	Italian: mandria, branco	Japanese: 群れ
Korean: (보통 대형의 동물, 특히 소, 돼지의) 떼	Lithuanian: banda, kaimenė	Latvian: ganāmpulks; bars
Malay: sekawan	Dutch: kudde	Norwegian: bøling, flokk, hjord
Polish: stado	Persian: رمه	Pashto: رمه ، ګورم ګله
Portuguese: manada	Romanian: turmă, cireadă	Russian: стадо
Slovak: stádo	Slovenian: čreda	Serbian: stado
Swedish: hjord	Thai: ฝูงสัตว์	Turkish: sürü
Taiwanese: (同類)獸群	Ukrainian: стадо, табун	Urdu: گروہ
Vietnamese: đàn	Chinese: 畜群
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