Definitions for HERD
hɜrdherd

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. herdnoun

   a group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans

2. herdnoun

   a group of wild mammals of one species that remain together: antelope or elephants or seals or whales or zebra

3. ruck, herdverb

   a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things

   "his brilliance raised him above the ruck"; "the children resembled a fairy herd"

4. herd, crowdverb

   cause to herd, drive, or crowd together

   "We herded the children into a spare classroom"

5. herdverb

   move together, like a herd

6. herdverb

   keep, move, or drive animals

   "Who will be herding the cattle when the cowboy dies?"

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. HERDnoun

   Etymology: heord, Saxon.

   1. A number of beasts together. It is peculiarly applied to black cattle. Flocks and herds are sheep and oxen or kine.

   Note a wild and wanton herd,
   Or race of youthful and unhandled colts,
   Fetching mad bounds. William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice.

   There find a herd of heifers, wand’ring o’er
   The neighbouring hill, and drive them to the shore. Addison.

   2. A company of men, in contempt or detestation.

   Survey the world, and where one Cato shines,
   Count a degenerate herd of Catilines. John Dryden, Juven.

   I do not remember where ever God delivered his oracles by the multitude, or nature truths by the herd. John Locke.

   3. It anciently signified a keeper of cattle, and in Scotland it is still used. [ hyrd , Saxon,] A sense still retained in composition: as goatherd.

2. To Herdverb

   To throw or put into an herd.

   The rest,
   However great we are, honest and valiant,
   Are herded with the vulgar. Ben Jonson, Catiline.

3. To Herdverb

   Etymology: from the noun.

   1. To run in herds or companies.

   Weak women should, in danger, herd like deer. Dryden.

   It is the nature of indigency, like common danger, to endear men to one another, and make them herd together, like fellow-sailors in a storm. John Norris.

   2. To associate.

   I’ll herd among his friends, and seem
   One of the number. Joseph Addison, Cato.

   Run to towns, to herd with knaves and fools,
   And undistinguish’d pass among the crowd. William Walsh.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. herd

   A herd is a large group of animals, typically of similar species such as deer, sheep, or cows, that live, feed, or migrate together, often under the leadership or care of an individual or team. The term can also refer metaphorically to a group of people with a common characteristic.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. Herdadjective

   haired

2. Herdnoun

   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. Herdnoun

   a crowd of low people; a rabble

4. Herdnoun

   one who herds or assembles domestic animals; a herdsman; -- much used in composition; as, a shepherd; a goatherd, and the like

5. Herdverb

   to unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company; as, sheep herd on many hills

6. Herdverb

   to associate; to ally one's self with, or place one's self among, a group or company

7. Herdverb

   to act as a herdsman or a shepherd

8. Herdverb

   to form or put into a herd

9. Etymology: [See 2d Herd.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Herd

   A herd refers to a social grouping of certain animals of the same species, either wild or domestic, and also to the form of collective animal behavior associated with this or as a verb, to herd, to its control by another species such as humans or dogs. The term herd is generally applied to mammals, and most particularly to the grazing ungulates that classically display this behaviour. Different terms are used for similar groupings in other species; in the case of birds, for example, the word is flocking, but flock may also be used, in certain instances, for mammals, particularly sheep or goats. A group of quail is often referred to as a covey. Large groups of carnivores are usually called packs, and in nature a herd is classically subject to predation from pack hunters. Special collective nouns may be used for particular taxa but for theoretical discussions of behavioural ecology, the generic term herd can be used for all such kinds of assemblage. The word herd, as a noun, can also refer to one who controls, possesses and has care for such groups of animals when they are domesticated. Examples of herds in this sense include shepherds, goatherds, cowherds, and others.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Herd

   hėrd, n. a number of beasts feeding together, and watched or tended: any collection of beasts, as distinguished from a flock: a company of people, the rabble.—v.i. to run in herds.—v.t. to tend, as a herdsman.—ns. Herd, one who tends a herd; Herd′groom (Spens.), a shepherd-lad; Herds′-grass, timothy-grass; Herds′man, a man employed to herd or tend cattle—(B.) Herd′man. [A.S. hirde, hierde; Ger. heerde, Sw. hjord.]

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Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. HERD

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Herd is ranked #6982 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Herd surname appeared 4,803 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 2 would have the surname Herd.
   
   73.4% or 3,529 total occurrences were White.
   19.1% or 920 total occurrences were Black.
   3% or 148 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   2.6% or 126 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.9% or 43 total occurrences were Asian.
   0.7% or 37 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

Matched Categories

1. • Animal Group
   • Crowd
   • Keep
   • Move

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'HERD' in Nouns Frequency: #2998

How to pronounce HERD?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say HERD in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of HERD in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of HERD in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of HERD in a Sentence

1. Chris LaRocca:

   Area development is the only thing we’re going to do, it gets us there quicker, and the franchisees are more sophisticated. We don’t have to herd cats.

2. Brandy Wittenborn:

   But as we rolled out the vaccine for adults, and you saw so much vaccine hesitancy, it kind of occurred to me : If we are going to reach any kind of herd immunity, it's going to have to involve the under-10 crowd... and that was really before we started seeing some of these variants that affected kids a little bit more.

3. Noah Greenwald:

   The highest priority is augmenting the herd with more animals and protecting their habitat from snowmobiles.

4. Theodore Andreadis:

   With the increased forestation in the state and in the Northeast, the deer herd have increased exponentially, then the ticks have increased, and now the virus.

5. Anthony Fauci:

   The more and more people that get vaccinated, the less and less the threat is, whether you get to the point if you have an overwhelming majority of people vaccinated and you have a good umbrella of herd immunity, you can get back to as close to normal as you want.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=HERD
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=HERD
3. ^ ChatGPT
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4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/HERD
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=HERD
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=HERD
7. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html