herd

Signification (English)

Noun

1. A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper.
2. Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company.
3. A crowd, a mass of people or things; a rabble.

Verb

1. To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company.
2. To unite or associate in a herd
3. To manage, care for or guard a herd
4. To associate; to ally oneself with, or place oneself among, a group or company.
5. To move, or be moved, in a group. (of both animals and people)

Verb

1. To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.
2. To form or put into a herd.
3. To move or drive a herd.

Concepts

troupeau

bande

foule

troupe

conduire

groupe

horde

bétail

ensemble

mener

nuée

collection

garder le bétail

harde

meute

troupeau de chèvres

acculer

troupeau de moutons

amas

banc

cheptel

essaim

four

garder

grouillement

masse

massif

rassembler

diriger vers

Synonyms

flock

group

crowd

pack

swarm

drove

collection

bevy

school

🏫

multitude

horde

troop

shepherd

set

shoal

heap

tend

drive

graze

living creature

possessions

band

gaggle

being

company

party

🥳

mob

family

👪

round up

flight

✈️

colony

throng

pasture

herdsman

pride

class

rabble

army

ruck

skein

watch

⌚

covey

livestock

are

herder

pod

herd of cattle

care for

lead

clan

assembly

clump

division

cluster

drift

train

🚋

corner

tribe

team

gang

kindle

knot

🪢

lair

leash

look after

lots of

mass

mobilise

murder

mustering

nest

oven

pack up

paddling

pair

parcel

parliament

pasturing

people

🧑‍🤝‍🧑

pleb

plenty

plump

portion

pounce

prod

push

race

raft

ragtag

roasting

rookery

rout

sect

series

shiver

shoo

shrewdness

side

skulk

sleuth

sloth

🦥

sort

sounder

span

species

squad

string

🪢

stud

surfeit

tiding

tittering

ride herd

trap

🪤

trip

type

unwashed

vaquero

wedge

work

wrangle

harras

clowder

neatherd

move forcibly

murmuration

multitude of beasts

> mufudzi

hirsel

cete

herding the cattle

stock grazing

turning to pasture

grazing the cattle

abundance

put out to pasture

aggregation

ascension

assemblage

assemble

barrel

barren

battalion

battery

🔋

bed

🛏️

bike

🚲

boar

🐗

body

brace

brood

browse

buckaroo

building

bunch

bury

business

busyness

care

cartload

category

catty

chowder

circle

⭕

clamour

cloud

☁️

clutter

coalition

comfort

copse

corps

cowboy

🤠

cow boy

crop

custody

denomination

erst

escort

exaltation

field

flush

fold

gather

grazing

grist

gulp

harem

herbage

hive

hoi polloi

host

intrigue

join

keeper

kennel

kind

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/hɜːd/

Étymologie (English)

Inherited from moyen anglais: herde

Inherited from ancien anglais: hierd

Cognate with allemand: Herde

Cognate with danois: hjord

Cognate with suédois: hjord

Cognate with albanais: herdhe

Cognate with serbo-croate: krdo

Inherited from ancien anglais: hirde

Cognate with allemand: Hirte

Cognate with suédois: herde

Cognate with danois: hyrde

In summary

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 *ḱerdʰ- (“file, row, herd”). Cognate with German Herde, Danish hjord, Swedish hjord. Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian herdhe (“nest”) and Serbo-Croatian krdo.