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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.
noun. /hɜːd/. /hɜːrd/. [countable + singular or plural verb] Idioms. a group of animals of the same type that live and feed together. a herd of cows/deer/elephants. a beef/dairy herd. compare flock. Extra Examples.
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.
1 day ago · herd in American English. (hɜːrd) noun. 1. a number of animals kept, feeding, or traveling together; drove; flock. a herd of cattle. a herd of sheep. a herd of zebras. 2. sometimes derogatory.
HERD meaning: 1. a large group of animals such as cows that live and eat together: 2. If people or animals are…. Learn more.