herd

Meaning

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.

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

Pronounced as (IPA)

/hɜːd/

Etymology

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.