Herd

Noun

 * 1) A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper.
 * 2) * 1768, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,
 * The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea.
 * 1) Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company.
 * 2) * 2007, J. Michael Fay, Ivory Wars: Last Stand in Zakouma, National Geographic (March 2007), 47,
 * Zakouma is the last place on Earth where you can see more than a thousand elephants on the move in a single, compact herd.
 * 1) A crowd, a mass of people; now usually pejorative: a rabble.
 * But far more numerous was the herd of such / Who think too little and who talk too much. Dryden.
 * You can never interest the common herd in the abstract question. Coleridge.

Verb

 * 1)  To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company.
 * Sheep herd on many hills.
 * 1)  To associate; to ally one's self with, or place one's self among, a group or company.
 * I’ll herd among his friends, and seem One of the number. Addison.

Noun

 * 1)  Someone who keeps a group of domestic animals; a herdsman.
 * 2) * 2000, Alasdair Grey, The Book of Prefaces, Bloomsbury 2002, p. 38:
 * Any talent which gives a good new thing to others is a miracle, but commentators have thought it extra miraculous that England's first known poet was an illiterate herd.

Derived terms

 * gooseherd


 * vaxherd

Related terms

 * cowherd
 * goatherd
 * gosherd
 * hogsherd


 * horseherd
 * neatherd
 * shepherd
 * swineherd

Verb

 * 1)  To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.
 * 2)  To form or put into a herd.
 * I heard the herd of cattle being herded home from a long way away.

Adjectives for Herd
bellowing; stolid;  fear-crazed; vulgar weanling; scaly; meager; wild; wanton maddening; weaponless; turbulent; servile careless; drooping; wandering; innumerable (pi); untamable; countless (pi); incomparable; quiet; gentle; sarcastic; night¬mare; diminishing; woolly; profane; galloping; tempting.

Verbs for Herd
abandon—; assemble in—; associate with—; break—; breed in—; cluster in—; congregate in—; control—; destroy—; drive—; gather in—; guard—; join—; lead—; mingle among—; prey on—; rule—; single out of—; slaughter—; stall—; stampede—; —lows; —grazes; —perishes; —ranges; — treks.

Thesaurus
Gyropilot, army, assemblage, assemble, automatic pilot, boatheader, boatsteerer, bunch, cage, cicerone, cluster, collect, collection, colony, congregate, corral, courier, cowherd, coxswain, crowd, crush, dragoman, drift, drive, drove, drover, flock, gam, gang, gather, gather together, goad, goatherd, group, guide, guidepost, guider, helmsman, herdsman, hoi polloi, hold the reins, horde, host, kennel, lash, litter, mass, masses, mercury, multitude, navigator, pack, pilot, pod, pointer, press, prick, pride, punch cattle, rabble, ride herd on, river pilot, round up, run, school, shepherd, shoal, skulk, sloth, spur, steer, steerer, steersman, swarm, take the helm, throng, tour director, tour guide, trip, troop, whip, wrangle

Etymology 1
heord:, from, from. Cognate with German Herde:, Swedish hjord:

Etymology 2
hirde:, hierde:, from. Cognate with German Hirte:, Swedish herde:, Danish hyrde:.

Noun

 * Albanian: tufë
 * Arabic: قطيع
 * Armenian:,  ,  ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 獸群, 兽群,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ჯოგი
 * German:
 * Greek: (domestic): (kopádi), (wild): (agéli)
 * Hebrew: (domestic):, (wild):
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Hebrew: (domestic):, (wild):
 * Hungarian: ,


 * Icelandic: ,
 * Japanese: 群れ (むれ, mure)
 * Latin: armentum,
 * Navajo:
 * Polish:, (of pigs)
 * Portuguese:, rebanho, (cattle)
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbian: ,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish: hjord
 * Thai: (mòo),  (fŏong)
 * Turkish:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish: hjord
 * Thai: (mòo),  (fŏong)
 * Turkish:


 * Arabic: قطيع
 * Armenian: ամբոխ
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Hebrew: אספסוף
 * Hungarian:


 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,.
 * Serbian:
 * Swedish: hop, massa

Verb

 * Arabic: يرعى
 * Finnish:
 * French: rassembler


 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: valla


 * Finnish:


 * Swedish: samla

Noun

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,


 * Hebrew: רועה
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Polish:
 * Swedish: herde


 * : kope
 * : saldo
 * : stado, krdo


 * : turmă, cireadă , cârd
 * : stádo, črieda
 * : hato, manada , rebaño

Verb

 * Arabic: يرعى
 * Finnish:
 * Italian: imbrancare


 * Russian: пасти
 * Swedish: valla


 * Arabic: يرعى
 * Finnish:


 * Swedish: samla

Etymology
*undefined:, whence also Old English heorþ

Noun

 * 1) hearth