herd
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English herde, heerde, heorde, from Old English hierd, heord (“herd, flock; keeping, care, custody”), from Proto-West Germanic *herdu, from Proto-Germanic *herdō (“herd”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerdʰ- (“file, row, herd”). Cognate with German Herde, Danish hjord, Swedish hjord. Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian herdhe (“nest”) and Serbo-Croatian krdo.
Inflected forms:
form: herds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: herds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: herding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: herded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: herded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper.
pos: noun
examples: a herd of cattle
a herd of sheep
a herd of goats
The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea.
gloss: Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company.
pos: noun
examples: Zakouma is the last place on Earth where you can see more than a thousand elephants on the move in a single, compact herd.
Zebras can also be called a herd or a zeal.
gloss: A crowd, a mass of people or things; a rabble.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
usually
examples: I was never one to follow the herd.
But far more numerous vvas the herd of ſuch, / VVho think too little, and vvho talk too much.
You can never interest the common herd in the abstract question.
There were herds of leather sofas and enough computers to ensure that no prospective matriculant or visiting parent could enter a room and not see at least one available keyboard, not even in the dining hall or field house.
gloss: To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Sheep herd on many hills.
The women bunched up in little droves and let their tongues clack, and the men herded together and passed a jug around and, to tell the truth, let their tongues clack too.
Any predator that preys on animals that herd or school, has to be able to single out one individual to attack.
gloss: To unite or associate in a herd
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To manage, care for or guard a herd
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He is employed to herd the goats.
gloss: To associate; to ally oneself with, or place oneself among, a group or company.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I’ll herd among his Friends, and ſeem
One of the Number, […]
"[W]hy, I say, oh stranger, dost thou think that I herd here with barbarians lower than the beasts?"
gloss: To move, or be moved, in a group. (of both animals and people)
pos: verb
examples: On alighting at the station, we were all herded over the footbridge and through a side exit.
Derived words: bot herd
flerd
herd behaviour
herd boar
herdbook
herdboy
herdess
herdful
herdgroom
herd immunity
herd instinct
herdless
herdlike
herdman
herd mentality
herdowner
herd path
herdsboy
herdswoman
herdthink
herdwide
interherd
intraherd
put the herd on someone
share herd
share-herd
subherd
thin the herd
thundering herd
thundering herd problem
herdable
herd cats
herd together
misherd
unherded
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: رَعَى
roman: raʕā
lang: Esperanto
word: paŝti
lang: Finnish
word: kokoontua
lang: Finnish
word: laumautua
lang: French
word: rassembler
lang: German
word: hüten
lang: Italian
word: radunare
lang: Macedonian
word: у́шка
roman: úška
lang: Māori
word: whiu
lang: Portuguese
word: arrebanhar-se
lang: Spanish
word: conducir
lang: Swedish
word: valla
lang: Tocharian B
word: kraup-
lang: Vietnamese
word: dồn
lang: Finnish
word: koota yhteen
lang: Finnish
word: paimentaa
lang: Latin
word: gregō