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- DictionaryHerd/hərd/
noun
- 1. a large group of animals, especially hoofed mammals, that live, feed, or migrate together or are kept together as livestock: "a herd of elephants"
verb
- 1. (with reference to a group of people or animals) move in a particular direction: "we all herded into a storage room"
- 2. keep or look after (livestock): "Hunter and Tripp herded sheep"
The meaning of HERD is a typically large group of animals of one kind kept together under human control. How to use herd in a sentence.
Herd definition: a number of animals kept, feeding, or traveling together; drove; flock. See examples of HERD used in a sentence.
a large group of animals of the same type that live and feed together: a herd of cattle / elephants / goats. mainly disapproving. a large group of people that is considered together as a group and not separately: Poor Janine - she just follows the herd (= does what all the other people are doing).
A herd is a bunch of animals — or people who act like a bunch of animals. It's also a verb — when people herd animals, they try to keep them moving in the same direction.
A herd is a social group of certain animals of the same species, either wild or domestic. The form of collective animal behavior associated with this is called herding. These animals are known as gregarious animals. The term herd is generally applied to mammals, and most particularly to the grazing ungulates that
n. 1. a number of animals feeding, traveling, or kept together; drove; flock: a herd of zebras; a herd of sheep; a herd of cattle. 2. a large group of people; crowd; mob: a herd of autograph seekers. 3. a large group of things.
herd in British English. (hɜːd ) noun. 1. a large group of mammals living and feeding together, esp a group of cattle, sheep, etc. 2. often derogatory. a large group of people. 3. derogatory. the large mass of ordinary people.
Definition of herd noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Definitions of 'herd' 1. A herd is a large group of animals of one kind that live together. [...] 2. If you say that someone has joined the herd or follows the herd, you are criticizing them because you think that they behave just like everyone else and do not think for themselves. [disapproval] [...] 3.
HERD meaning: 1 : a group of animals that live or are kept together; 2 : a large group of people.
