herd
The definition of a herd is a big group of animals or people who share the same characteristics.
(noun)- An example of a herd is a group of cattle, sheep or elephants who all live and travel together.
- An example of a herd is a group of people who all dress and act in a similar way.
To herd is defined as to round up and cause animals and people to move in a specific direction.
(verb)An example of herd is when you direct cows to all move in the same direction.
See herd in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
- a number of cattle, sheep, or other animals feeding, living, or being driven together
- any large group suggestive of this; crowd; company
- the common people; masses: a contemptuous term
Origin: ME < OE heord, akin to Ger herde < IE base *kerdho-, a row, group > Sans árdha, a herd, troop
transitive verb, intransitive verb
noun
Origin: ME herde < OE hierde (akin to Ger hirt) < same base as herd
transitive verb, intransitive verb
Related Forms:
- herder noun
See herd in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- 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.
- 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.
- To gather, keep, or drive (animals) in a herd.
- To tend (sheep or cattle).
- To gather and place into a group or mass: herded the children into the auditorium.
Origin:
Origin: Middle English
Origin: , from Old English heord
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