herd

CEFRB1

/hɜːd/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A group of animals that live or move together.

  2. 02

    verb

    To make a group of people or animals move together.

Examples

  • The cowboys rounded up the herd of cattle.

  • Habit rules the unreflecting herd.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
3

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A crowd, a mass of people or things; a rabble.

  2. Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company.

  3. A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper.

More examples

In context

  • a herd of cattle

  • a herd of goats

  • a herd of sheep

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

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