herd

(hûrd)

a. A group of cattle or other large herbivorous mammals of a single kind kept together for a specific purpose.

b. A number of wild animals of one species, especially large herbivorous mammals, that remain together as a group: a herd of elephants.

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).

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.

[Middle English, from Old English heord.]

herd′er n.

Her·der

(hĕr′dər), Johann Gottfried von 1744-1803.

German philosopher and writer whose theory of culture and advocacy of intuition over rationality greatly influenced Goethe and formed the basis of German romanticism.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

herder

(ˈhɜːdə)

(Agriculture) chiefly US a person who cares for or drives herds of cattle or flocks of sheep, esp on an open range. Brit equivalent: herdsman

Herder

(German ˈhɛrdər)

(Biography) Johann Gottfried von (joˈhan ˈɡɔtfriːt fɔn). 1744–1803, German philosopher, critic, and poet, the leading figure in the Sturm und Drang movement in German literature. His chief work is Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man (1784–91)

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

herd•er

(ˈhɜr dər)

n.

a person in charge of a herd.

[1625–35]

Her•der

(ˈhɛər dər)

n.

Johann Gottfried von, 1744–1803, German philosopher and critic.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	Herder - German philosopher who advocated intuition over reason (1744-1803) Johann Gottfried von Herder
	2.	herder - someone who drives a herd drover, herdsman goat herder, goatherd - a person who tends a flock of goats hired hand, hired man, hand - a hired laborer on a farm or ranch; "the hired hand fixed the railing"; "a ranch hand" sheepherder, sheepman, shepherd - a herder of sheep (on an open range); someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock pigman, swineherd - a herder or swine

Mentioned in

References in classic literature

"Yes, that is Herder's theory," said Prince Andrew, "but it is not that which can convince me, dear friend- life and death are what convince.

View in context

If Numa had planned, he had planned well, for scarcely had he reached his position when the door opened and a herder's head was projected into the enclosure, the fellow evidently seeking an explanation of the disturbance among his flock.

View in context

I knew Von Herder, the blind German mechanic, who constructed it to the order of the late Professor Moriarty.

The famous air-gun of Von Herder will embellish the Scotland Yard Museum, and once again Mr.

View in context

Therefore it was droll in the good Riemer, who has written memoirs of Goethe, to make out a list of his donations and good deeds, as, so many hundred thalers given to Stilling, to Hegel, to Tischbein; a lucrative place found for Professor Voss, a post under the Grand Duke for Herder, a pension for Meyer, two professors recommended to foreign universities; &c., &c.

View in context

"All the jungle knows thou wast a herder of tame cattle--such a man's brat as shouts in the dust by the crops yonder.

View in context

In process of time, thanks to his intimate knowledge of drill and musketry exercise, the excellent Mulcahy, wearing the corporal's stripe, went out in a troopship and joined Her Majesty's Royal Loyal Musketeers, commonly known as the "Mavericks," because they were masterless and unbranded cattle - sons of small farmers in County Clare, shoeless vagabonds of Kerry, herders of Ballyvegan, much wanted "moonlighters" from the bare rainy headlands of the south coast, officered by O'Mores, Bradys, Hills, Kilreas, and the like.

View in context

Among the three trekking routes in HNPS, the current road-based route was the previous cattle herder route following the Kunhar River flowing into the valley bottom.

MAKING GOAT HERDERS AS SCAPE GOATS FOR HIGH-ALTITUDE PASTURE DEGRADATION: A CASE STUDY OF HARIPUR-NARAN PASTORAL SYSTEM IN NORTHERN PAKISTAN

In particular, reindeer herder families in the taiga area of Mongolia whose lives depend on their reindeers, had 814 reindeers by the end of 2016, however, the number reached 2396 reindeer herded by 85 families, increasing three times.

Mongolia hosts festival to celebrate reindeer population growth

A cattle herder, was reported dead after a cow from the herd he shepherded, went wild and gored him to death at Ughelli, Ughelli North local government area of Delta State.

Angry cow turns against herdsman, gores him to death

They demanded compensation be paid to the herder, who told the police that his herd was advancing towards the cattle market of Mirpurkhas along the side of the road when the van went out of its driver's control and ran over many of the sheep.

20 sheep perish as van overruns herd