Herd

Definition: Herd

Herd

Noun

1. A group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans.

2. A group of wild animals of one species that remain together: antelope or elephants or seals or whales or zebra.

3. A crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things; "his brilliance raised him above the ruck"; "the children resembled a fairy herd".

Verb

1. Cause to herd, drive, or crowd together; "We herded the children into a spare classroom".

2. Move together, like a herd.

3. Keep, move, or drive animals; "Who will be herding the cattle when the cowboy dies?".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "herd" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Bible

Food & Agriculture

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

HERD

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Herd

Assemblage

Verb: assemble, collect, muster; meet, unite, join, rejoin; cluster, flock, swarm, surge, stream, herd, crowd, throng, associate; congregate, conglomerate, concentrate; precipitate; center round, rendezvous, resort; come together, flock get together, pig together; forgather; huddle; reassemble.

Crowd, throng, group; flood, rush, deluge; rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe; crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party; swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove; atajo; bunch, drive, force, mulada; remuda; roundup; array, bevy, galaxy; corps, company, troop, troupe, task force; army, regiment; (combatants); host;crowd, throng, group; flood, rush, deluge; rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe; crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party; swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove; atajo; bunch, drive, force, mulada; remuda; roundup; array, bevy, galaxy; corps, company, troop, troupe, task force; army, regiment; (combatants); host; (multitude); populousness.

Assent

Pressure to conform, herd instinct, peer pressure.

Commonalty

Noun: commonalty, democracy; obscurity; low condition, low life, low society, low company; bourgeoisie; mass of the people, mass of society; Brown Jones and Robinson; lower classes, humbler classes, humbler orders; vulgar herd, common herd; rank and file, hoc genus omne; the many, the general,the crowd, the people, the populace, the million, the masses, the mobility, the peasantry; king Mob; proletariat; fruges consumere nati, demos, hoi polloi, great unwashed; man in the street.

Multitude

Noun: mul numerous; Adjective: numerosity, numerality; multiplicity; profusion; (plenty); legion, host; great number, large number, round number, enormous number; a quantity, numbers, array, sight, army, sea, galaxy; scores, peck, bushel, shoal, swarm, draught, bevy, cloud, flock, herd, drove, flight, covey, hive, brood, litter, farrow, fry, nest; crowd; (assemblage); lots; all in the world and his wife.

Crosswords: Herd

German (cooker, epicenter, firebox, focus, furnace, hearth, kiln, oven, range, seat, stove).

Can you not speak to me because you love meor because you just got trampled by a herd of reindeer (Hooves of Fire; writing credit: Andy Riley; Kevin Cecil)

There's nothing wrong with being cut from the herd, either (Malcolm in the Middle; writing credit: Daniel Frenette)

Any way these herd of grizzlies smelt them out. They came in an they ate them (Grizzly; writing credit: Harvey Flaxman; David Sheldon)

A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo (Cheers; writing credit: Isaac Cronin; Wayne Wang)

You ride on up there, clear out the Iindians, build a little cabin, get a nice fire goin' in the fireplace and me and Jake will gather a herd and then we'll come on up. (Lonesome Dove; writing credit: Larry McMurtry; William D. Wittliff)

Like a sheep runs from the herd (Minority; performing artist: Green Day)

Herman's Herd (1949)

The Thundering Herd (1933)

King of the Herd (1927)

The Thundering Herd (1925)

In the Days of the Thundering Herd (1914)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Herd of Cows! Flock of Sheep! (reference)

• Join the Herd! A Pull-Tab, Lift-the-Flap, and Pop-Up Book (Ice Age) (reference)

• Large Dairy Herd Management (reference)

• One Day With a Goat Herd (reference)

• The Jackson Elk Herd : Intensive Wildlife Management in North America (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Herd Book (reference)

• Herd Insider (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Always Drink Upstream from the Herd (reference)

• Thundering Herd (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Part of a domesticated reindeer herd. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals).

A herd of sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) disputes the passage of the LESTER JONES. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. A herd of fiddler crabs. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve White-tailed deer - Odocoileus virginianus. This common deer has its highest population density in Rhode Island on Prudence Island. The island supports a herd of approximately 300 individuals. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Ranchers herd cattle on healthy rangeland. Credit: Ron Nichols.

Driving herd of cattle to winter ranage near Paislely OR. Credit: USDA.

Herd bull in MS. Credit: USDA.

This bison is part of a 13-head herd involved in a brucellosis vaccine study at the National Animal Disease Center in Ames, Iowa. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller..

Because much of the cost of a cow is the feed and labor needed to maintain her, fewer but higher yielding cows mean lower priced milk. Dairy herd improvement ultimately benefits consumers. Photo by Keith Weller. Credit: USDA ARS News.

Wildhorse wrangler, Greg Allum, holds Prather horse near trap entrance at Kiger Herd Management Area. Credit: Connie Dellera.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And indeed, if that be so, the people under his government are not a society of rational creatures, entered into a community for their mutual good; they are not such as have set rulers over themselves, to guard, and promote that good; but are to be looked on as an herd of inferior creatures under the dominion of a master, who keeps them and works them for his own pleasure or profit. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The common herd is an old Narcissus, who adores himself, and who applauds the common

This favorite is hated by the whole herd, and therefore to protect himself, keeps always near the person of his leader

It is the luxurious and dissipated who set the fashions which the herd so diligently follow

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Further evaluation of herd immunity effects may lead to insight into vaccination strategies that optimize protection against invasive disease and transmission of Hib organisms. (references)

Business

The mad rush to capitalize on these months often creates a herd mentality. (references)

Economic History

Chad

Others estimate the herd size much higher. (references)

Zambia

Small-scale farmers largely hold the national livestock herd in the southern and western provinces. (references)

Russia

BSE and foot-and-mouth disease led to a reduction in the EU cow herd size and, consequently, reduced dairy exports to Russia. (references)

Human Rights

Colombia

On July 4, a large group of AUC paramilitaries kidnaped 43 young men in Peque, Antioquia department and forced them to herd stolen cattle. (references)

Somalia

The rapes usually followed looting attacks by bandits and occurred when women and girls left the camps to herd goats or collect firewood or at night when bandits enter the refugee camps. (references)

Political Economy

Sudan

Abductees frequently are forced to herd cattle, work in the fields, fetch water, dig wells, and do housework. (references)

Worker Rights

Swaziland

Children also are employed as domestic workers, and as herd boys in rural areas. (references)

Zambia

Angolan Government forces and UNITA deserters abducted citizens and forced them to accompany them back to Angola, where the abductees were forced to herd cattle, carry logistical supplies, and engage in prostitution. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "herd": buffalo herd ♦ dairy herd ♦ herd immunity ♦ herd insinct ♦ herd instinct ♦ herd on ♦ herd record ♦ herd register ♦ herd together ♦ herd with ♦ integral herd ♦ nucleus herd ♦ ride herd ♦ ride herd on ♦ stomp like a herd of elephants ♦ the vulgar herd ♦ thundering herd problem ♦ vulgar herd. Additional references.

Beginning with "herd": herd-designed, herd-living, herd-mate, herd-mates, herd-of-sheep.

Ending with "herd": cat-herd, goatee-herd, goat-herd, horse-herd, neat-herd, swine-herd.

Afrikaans

trop (are, bevy, cluster, collection, flock, group, heap, pack, set), kudde (are, bevy, cluster, collection, flock, group, heap, pack, set), skool (are, bench, bevy, cluster, collection, group, heap, pack, school, set), skare (accumulation, are, band, bevy, cluster, collection, crowd, gang, group, heap, mass, multitude, pack, pile, set), klomp (are, bevy, cluster, collection, group, heap, pack, pile, set, stack). (various references)

Albanian

turmë (bevy, concourse, confluence, crew, crowd, drove, flock, horde, huddle, jam, mob, press, rabble, rat race, rout, ruck, throng), tufëzoj, tufë (batch, beam, book, bunch, cloud, clutch, Covey, crop, drove, flight, flock, funiculus, group, mass, muster, parcel, plume, ream, roll, run, scads, slip, stack, swarm, troop, truss, tuft, tussock, wad), përçoj (conduct, convey), mblidhet në tufë, mbledh (accumulate, add, add together, assemble, bank, brush up, call in, call together, cast, cast up, clench, collate, collect, compile, compress, congregate, convene, convoke, draw, dredge, drum up, focus, fold, fund, furl, gather, get together, group, impound, kilt, levy, lift, make up, pack, pick, pick off, pick up, pool, rally, reap, round up, scoop up, shut, sweep, take, total, totalize), kullot (browse, depasture, grass, graze, pasture, wrangle), kullos (browse, depasture, grass, graze, pasture, wrangle), kopeje, kope (band, drove, pack, parcel, troop). (various references)

Arabic 

سِرْب (flock), ‏قطيع (drove, flock, group, troop), ‏قاد قطيعا, ‏سوق (carry, corner, drive, emporium, fair, market, mart, merchandise), ‏سرب (bevy, drift, flock, group, infiltrate, leak, swarm), ‏عصابة (bandage, gang, pack, ring, robbers, set, shower, swathe, tape), ‏جمع (accumulate, add, addition, aggregate, ally, amass, assemblage, assemble, band, be gathered, cast, collect, collecting, collection, combination, combine, compile, compose, congregate, connecting, corral, embody, fund, gather, gathering, glean, go berrying, grouping, ingathering, joining up, lump, marshal, muster, pickup, piece together, pile, pile up, pool, put together, raise, rake, rally, reap, round up, scratch, scratch together, stack, sum, sum up, summation, summing up, tot, total, totalize, unite, uniting), ‏الجمهور (community). (various references)

Bulgarian 

събирам се в стадо, стадо (bunch, flock, horde, mob, pack, pride, troop), стаден (gregarious), чарда, тълпя се (collect, crowd, crowd together, flock, horde together, mob, swarm, throng, troop, whirl), тълпа (cloud, concourse, cram, crowd, crush, drove, host, huddle, mob, multitude, press, rabble, resort, rout, ruck, shoal, squash, throng, train, troop), табун, маса (accumulation, aggregation, body, bulk, concretion, crowd, gross, heap, heaps of, lashings, lot, lump, mass, oodles, pack, regiment, ruck, scad, shoal, slathers, stack, swarm, table, volume, volumes), живея в стадо, подбирам (assail, cull, extract, go for smb., match, pick, pick out, pick over, rail at, round up, select, winnow), пастир (cowherd, herdsman, oxherd, pastor), паса (browse, depasture, feed, grass, graze, pasture, range, run, tend, wrangle), движа се вкупом. (various references)

Chinese 

牧群, 噳 (buck, stag). (various references)

Czech

houf (band, bevy, bunch, drove, gaggle, horde, shoal, throng, troop), stádo (drove, flock, pack), sebranka (pack, vermin), banda (gang, racket, vermin). (various references)

Danish

hyrde (shepherd), opsynsmand (herder, herdsman, musterer), gruppe (are, bevy, cluster, collection, group, heap, pack, set), flok (band, drove, flock, integral herd, textile flock), besaetning (drove, flock, trimming). (various references)

Dutch

kudde (are, bevy, cluster, collection, flock, good great group, group, heap, livestock, pack, set), roedel (flock), drift (are, bevy, cluster, collection, group, heap, pack, set). (various references)

Esperanto

grego (flock), aro (are, bevy, collection, group, heap, set, square decametre). (various references)

Faeroese

hópur (accumulation, are, bevy, cluster, collection, crowd, group, heap, lump, mass, multitude, pack, pile, set, swarm), savn (are, bevy, cluster, collection, group, heap, museum, pack, set), rúgva (are, bevy, cluster, collection, group, heap, pack, pile, set, stack), gonga (flock), fylgi (flock), flokkur (are, bevy, class, cluster, collection, faction, gang, group, heap, pack, party, set, side, squad, swarm, troop, troupe, type). (various references)

Farsi 

متحدکردن (Ally, Band, Incorporate, Join, League, Unify, Unite), گله (Covey, Discontent, Drove, Flock, Gripe, Groan, Grumble, Quarrel), گردامدن (Agglomerate, Assemble, Constringe, Convene, Flock, Gather, Rally, Ring), جمعیت (Army, Bike, Company, Crowd, Flock, Gang, Group, Habitancy, Heap, Mob, Party, People, Population, Press, Society, Throng), جمع شدن (Aggregate, Assemble, Backlog, Beehive, Congregate, Constringe, Drift, Flock, Gather, Group, Muster, Retract, Shrink, Snuggle, Twitch), رمه (Drove, Flock). (various references)

Finnish

lauma (drove, flock, horde, host, pack, swarm), karjalauma (drove, flock). (various references)

French

troupeau (integral herd), troupe (heap), bande (heap). (various references)

German

herde (drove, flock, gaggle, livestock, stoves). (various references)

Greek 

κοπάδι (flock, shoal), αγέλη (drove, flock, pack). (various references)

Hebrew 

מקנה (cattle, livestock, property, purchase, stock), לנהוג עדר, עדר (drove, flock), המון (a great deal, a great many, a world of, crowd, hoi polloi, legion, loads of, many, mass, mob, multitude, oodle, plenty, swarm, throng), בקר (cattle, oxen). (various references)

Hungarian

nyáj (bunch, drove, flock, fold), csorda (bunch, drove, gang, horde), pásztor (shepherd), gulyás (goulash, herdsman, stockman, stockmen), gulya, embertömeg (drove, swad), csordás (herdsman, stockman, stockmen, wrangler). (various references)

Indonesian

sekawanan (flock), sekawan (flock, school (of fish)), menggembalakan (graze, pasture), giring (drive, escort a criminal). (various references)

Italian

mandria (drove, flock), gregge (drove, flock, fold), branco (drove, flock, gang, pack, parcel). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

群れ (bevy, clump, cluster, crowd, flock, group, school, swarm). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

むれ (bevy, clump, cluster, crowd, flock, group, school, swarm). (various references)

Korean 

떼 (sod). (various references)

Manx

shelloo (asset, holding, holding of land, possession), grih (breeding stud), griaght (drove, group), cheet ry-cheilley (amalgamate, club, come together, confluence, congress, converge, focusing, get together, harmonize, mix, tally), bochillaght (drove, look after, shepherd). (various references)

Maori

kaahui. (various references)

Norwegian

gjete, flokk (flock). (various references)

Papago

shahtha. (various references)

Papiamen

kuadria (are, bevy, cluster, collection, group, heap, pack, set), grupo (are, bevy, cluster, collection, group, heap, pack, set). (various references)

Pig Latin

erdhay.(various references)

Portuguese

rebanho (bunch, cattle, drove, flock, livestock, troop). (various references)

Romanian

vãcar (cowboy, cowherd, neatherd, oxherd), turmã (charge, drove, flock, sheep, troop), se strânge (bank up, close, collect, convolve, cuddle, curl up, draw, flock, furl, jam, join, mass, mob, nuzzle, pack, pile up, snuggle, squash, squeeze, straiten), pãzi (await, award, be careful, defend, fend, guard, heep an eye on, keep, restrain, shield, tend, treasure, watch), pãstor (Shepherd), pâlc (cluster, group), mulţime (accumulation, army, array, body, boodle, cloud, cluster, concourse, crowd, dozen, drove, fifty, flock, forest, generality, heap, hive, host, huddle, lashing, manifold, mass, mob, multitude, muster, number, Peck, pile, plenty, populace, press, quantity, rabble, ream, shoal, sight, squash, stack, swarm, throng), merge cu gloatã, gloatã (band, boodle, crowd, drove, flock, heap, mob, multitude, populace, press, rabble, riff raff, squash, the many, troop), cireadã (pod, troop), cioban (cowherd, goatherd, Shepherd), cãprãrie (group), cârd (band, bevy, drove, flock, gang, group, pack, shoal, troop). (various references)

Russian 

стадо (bevy, flock), стадный, собирать вместе (aggregate), ходить стадом, толпиться (crowd, mob, overcrowd, squash, throng), гурт (drove), быть вместе, пастух (cattleman, cowboy, cowherd, goatherd, herdsman, neatherd, neat-herd, oxherd, shepherd, stockman), пасти стадо, пасти (depasture, feed, graze, shepherded, shepherding). (various references)

Scottish

treud (flock), sgann (a membrane, a multitude, drove, membrane). (various references)

Sepedi

modia
i (shepherd). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

stočni, stado (drove, flock), rulja (doggery, drove, mob, populace, rabble), jato (bevy, cluster, flock, mob, swarm), čopor (doggery, drove, pride), živeti u krdu. (various references)

Spanish

manada (bevy, drove, flock, gaggle, pack, pod), hato (band, drove, flock, integral herd), grupo (are, band, bank, batch, bevy, block, bracket, bunch, camp, clump, cluster, collection, coterie, Covey, crowd, delegacy, delegation, gang, group, heap, huddle, knot, lot, mob, outfit, pack, panel, parcel, party, posse, pride, raft, range, set, square decametre, team, tie, troop, troupe, unit). (various references)

Swedish

hjord (are, bevy, cluster, collection, flock, fold, group, heap, pack, set), valla (Shepherd, ski wax, tend, watch), skock (crowd, flock, heap, huddle, troop), flock (are, bevy, cluster, collection, Covey, crowd, flight, flock, floss, group, heap, horde, pack, party, set, umbel), besättning (crew, garrison, onlay, stock, trimming). (various references)

Thai

ฝูงสัตว์ (flock), รวมกลุ่ม (club, club together), คนเลี้ยงสัตว์. (various references)

Turkish

topluluk (army, cohort, colony, community, company, corps, coterie, crowd, ensemble, gathering, group, hive, knot, party, push, set, society, troop), toplanmak (accumulate, agglomerate, assemble, band together, build, bunch, club, club together, cluster, collect, combine, congregate, convene, crowd, drift, flock, forgather, gather, get together, group, horde, keep together, meet, meet in council, mob, muster, rally, reunite, roll up, shoal, sit, sit on, swarm, swarm to a place, throng, troop, troop together, troop up, turn out), toplamak (accumulate, add, add together, add up, agglomerate, aggregate, amass, assemble, beat up, bring together, build, call in, cast up, clear away, club, collect, combine, compile, concentrate, congest, congregate, consolidate, convene, cull, fold down back, furl, gather, gather up, glean, hand-pick, harvest, heap up, hive, hive up, hoard, huddle, impound, lay up, levy, mass, muster, pack, pick, pick up, pluck, raise, rake together, rally, reckon up, recover, recruit, reunite, round up, scoop up, smarten up, sum up, summon, summon up, tot up, total, totalize, treasure, treasure up, turn out), sürmek (apply, banish, bedaub, cast out, coat, continue, daub, distribute, drive, drive out, endure, exile, expatriate, expel, hang over, last, lay on, lead, ostracize, outlaw, persist, pitchfork, relegate, roll, rub, run, slip in, smear, splash, spread, steer, stock, stream, stuff, throw out, till, tool along, transport, wipe on), sürü (cartload, cloud, Covey, crew, crowd, drove, flock, fold, gang, horde, pack, regiment, run, shoal, swarm), gütmek (bear, brood over, drive, Harbor, harbour, nourish, pasture, Shepherd, tail), eşlik etmek (accompany, attend, come along, companion, consort, convoy, escort, go along, go with, keep smb. company, wait on, wait upon, walk). (various references)

Turkmen 

sьri (flock). (various references)

Ukrainian

стадо (brood, drove), ходити стадом, череда (bunch, troop), пастух (cattleman, cowboy, cowherd, folder, herdman, herdsman, neatherd, oxherd). (various references)

Vietnamese 

bầy (brood, cluster, covey, parcel, plump, regiment). (various references)

Welsh

cenfaint. (various references)

agmen, agmina, agmine, agminibus, agminis, agminum, armentum, caterva, catervam, grex, pecora, pecore, pecoribus, pecoris, pecorum, pecus. (various references)

gaêthanãm, vãthwa. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "herd": herded, herder, herders, herdic, herdics, herding, herdlike, herdman, herdmen, herds, herdsman, herdsmen. (additional references)

Words ending with "herd": cowherd, goatherd, neatherd, potsherd, shepherd, sherd, swanherd, swineherd. (additional references)

Words containing "herd": cowherds, goatherds, neatherds, potsherds, sheepherder, sheepherders, sheepherding, sheepherdings, shepherded, shepherdess, shepherdesses, shepherding, shepherds, sherds, swanherds, swineherds. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Herd" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cherd, edr, erd, errd, Hardd, Hardt, hebdo, hed, heddy, hedra, heer, heid, heird, hejd, hemd, hend, Henrad, heord, herad, herc, herde, herdg, herdy, hered, herf, herg, heri, herk, herod, herp, herra, herta, herv, herz, hewd, heyd, hird, hoerd, Hord, hrd, hrdd, hred, hreu, hurd, jerd, kerd, phedre, therd, zerd. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: edh, her, red.

-2 letters: de, ed, eh, er, he, re.

+1 letter: hared, heard, heder, herds, hider, hired, horde, sherd, shred.

+2 letters: adhere, arched, chared, cheder, chider, chored, dasher, dearth, dehorn, dehort, dither, dreich, dreigh, drench, driegh, echard, haired, harden, harder, harked, harmed, harped, hatred, header, heders, hedger, heeder, heired, herald, herbed, herded, herder, herdic, hiders, hinder, holder, horded, hordes, horned, horsed, hurdle, hurled, hydrae, ochred, reshod, rhymed, ruched, rushed, shader, shared, sherds, shored, shreds, shrewd, thread, whored.