herd

herd  (hûrd)

n.

1.

a. A group of cattle or other domestic animals of a single kind kept together for a specific purpose.

b. A number of wild animals of one species that remain together as a group: a herd of elephants.

2.

a. A large number of people; a crowd: a herd of stranded passengers.

b. The multitude of common people regarded as a mass: "It is the luxurious and dissipated who set the fashions which the herd so diligently follow" Henry David Thoreau. See Synonyms at flock¹.

v. herd·ed, herd·ing, herds

v.intr.

To come together in a herd: The sheep herded for warmth.

v.tr.

1. To gather, keep, or drive (animals) in a herd.

2. To tend (sheep or cattle).

3. To gather and place into a group or mass: herded the children into the auditorium.

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[Middle English, from Old English heord.]

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herd

Noun

1. a large group of mammals, esp. cattle living and feeding together

2. Often disparaging a large group of people

Verb

to collect or be collected into or as if into a herd [Old English heord]

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Herd a number of animals assembled together, chiefly large animals; a crowd of common people. See also flock, rabble.

Examples: herd of antelopes; of asses; of attributes; of bison; of boars, 1735; of buffalo; of camels; of caribou, 1577; of cattle; of chamois, 1860; of cranes, 1470; of curlew; of deer, 1470; of elephants, 1875; of fallow beasts, 1576; of giraffes; of goats, 1700; of harlots, 1486; of harts, 1486; of coaches, 1618; of ibex; of mankind, 1665; of moose; of oxen; of parasites, 1818; of ponies; of porpoises, 1675; of seals, 1897; of swans, 1470; of swine, 1526; of sycophants; of whales, 1839; of wolves, 1697; of wrens, 1470.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	herd - a group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans Bos taurus, cattle, cows, kine, oxen - domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age; "so many head of cattle"; "wait till the cows come home"; "seven thin and ill-favored kine"- Bible; "a team of oxen" sheep - woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat animal group - a group of animals remuda - the herd of horses from which those to be used the next day are chosen
	2.	herd - a group of wild mammals of one species that remain together: antelope or elephants or seals or whales or zebra animal group - a group of animals gam - a herd of whales
	3.	herd - a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things; "his brilliance raised him above the ruck"; "the children resembled a fairy herd" ruck concourse, throng, multitude - a large gathering of people
Verb	1.	herd - cause to herd, drive, or crowd together; "We herded the children into a spare classroom" crowd move, displace - cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" overcrowd - cause to crowd together too much; "The students overcrowded the cafeteria"
	2.	herd - move together, like a herd crowd together, crowd - to gather together in large numbers; "men in straw boaters and waxed mustaches crowded the verandah"
	3.	herd - keep, move, or drive animals; "Who will be herding the cattle when the cowboy dies?" keep - raise; "She keeps a few chickens in the yard"; "he keeps bees" wrangle - herd and care for; "wrangle horses"

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herd

noun 1. flock, crowd, collection, mass, drove, crush, mob, swarm, horde, multitude, throng, assemblage, press

noun 2. (Often disparaging) mob, the masses, rabble, populace, the hoi polloi, the plebs, riffraff

verb 3. lead, drive, force, direct, guide, shepherd

verb 4. drive, lead, force, guide, shepherd

Translations

herd [həːd] n → rebaño; [of wild animals, swine] → piara

vt (= drive, gather) [+ animals] → llevar en manada: [+ people]; reunir

herd together vt → agrupar, reunir

vi → apiñarse, agruparse

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herd [həːd] n → troupeau m [of wild animals, swine]; troupeau, troupe f

vt (= drive) [+ animals, people] → mener, conduire (= gather); rassembler;

herded together → parqués (comme du bétail)

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herd [həːd] n → Herde f;

(of wild animals) → Rudel nt

vt → treiben;

(gather) → zusammentreiben;

herded together → zusammengetrieben

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herd [həːd] n → mandria; [of wild animals, swine] → branco

vt (= drive, gather) [+ animals] → guidare: [+ people]; radunare;

herded together → ammassati (come bestie)