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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.
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. 4. the herd, the common people; masses: to follow the herd.
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.
HERD meaning: 1. a large group of animals such as cows that live and eat together: 2. If people or animals are…. Learn more.
