Pronunciation Noun
herd (plural herds)
- A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper. [from 11th c.]
- 1768, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,
- The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea.
- 1768, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,
- Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company. [from 13th c.]
- 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.
- 2007, J. Michael Fay, Ivory Wars: Last Stand in Zakouma, National Geographic (March 2007), 47,
- (now, usually, pejorative) A crowd, a mass of people; now usually pejorative: a rabble. [from 15th c.]
- But far more numerous was the herd of such / Who think too little and who talk too much.
- You can never interest the common herd in the abstract question.
- French: troupeau
- German: Herde
- Italian: mandria, armento
- Portuguese: rebanho
- Russian: ста́до
- Spanish: manada (small herd)
- French: troupeau
- German: Herde
- Italian: mandria, branco, armento, masseria
- Portuguese: manada
- Russian: ста́до
- Spanish: hato, rebaño, manada
- Italian: gregge
- Italian: masnada, accozzaglia, accolita, cricca, ciurma
- Portuguese: súcia, cambada, canalha, malta, corja, choldra, ralé, gentalha, populacho, patuleia, povinho, plebe, vulgo, bas fond, escória
- Russian: ста́до
- Spanish: rebaño
herd (herds, present participle herding; past and past participle herded)
- (intransitive) To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company.
- Sheep herd on many hills.
- (transitive) To unite or associate in a herd
- He is employed to herd the goats.
- (intransitive) To associate; to ally oneself with, or place oneself among, a group or company.
I’ll herd among his friends, and seem
One of the number. Addison.
- French: rassembler
- German: hüten
- Italian: radunare
- Portuguese: arrebanhar-se
- Spanish: conducir
- Italian: unirsi
- Portuguese: arrebanhar-se
herd (plural herds)
- (now, rare) Someone who keeps a group of domestic animals; a herdsman.
- 2000, Alasdair Grey, The Book of Prefaces, Bloomsbury 2002, page 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.
- 2000, Alasdair Grey, The Book of Prefaces, Bloomsbury 2002, page 38:
herd (herds, present participle herding; past and past participle herded)
- (intransitive, Scotland) To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.
- (transitive) To form or put into a herd.
- I heard the herd of cattle being herded home from a long way away.
- Italian: imbrancare
- Portuguese: pastorear
- Russian: пасти
- Portuguese: arrebanhar
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