Anagram Solver

Definitions for Herd

[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 Disparaging . a large group of people: The star was mobbed by a herd of autograph seekers.
[3] any large quantity: a herd of bicycles.
[4] the herd, the common people; masses; rabble: He had no opinions of his own, but simply followed the herd.
[5] to unite or go in a herd; assemble or associate as a herd.
[6] ride herd on , to have charge or control of; maintain discipline over: He rode herd on 40 students in each class.
[7] a herdsman (usually used in combination): a cowherd; a goatherd; a shepherd.
[8] to tend, drive, or lead (cattle, sheep, etc.).
[9] to conduct or drive (a group of people) to a destination: The teacher herded the children into the classroom.
[10] a large group of mammals living and feeding together, esp a group of cattle, sheep, etc
[11] often derogatory a large group of people
[12] derogatory the large mass of ordinary people
[13] to collect or be collected into or as if into a herd
[14] archaic , or dialect a man or boy who tends livestock; herdsman (in combination ) goatherd ; swineherd
[15] to drive forwards in a large group
[16] to look after (livestock)

Words related to Herd

throng, brood, swarm, horde, mob, flock, corral, gathering, crowd, people, drove, populace, crush, lot, rabble, multitude, bevy, flight, nest, drift

Words nearby Herd

hercules beetle, hercules'-club, hercules-club, hercynian, hercynite, herd, herd immunity, herd instinct, herd tester, herd's-grass, herd-book

Origin of Herd

2before 900; Middle English herd(e ), hirde, Old English hierde; cognate with Gothic hairdeis, German Hirt(e ); derivative of herd1

Words that may be confused with Herd

heard, herd

Word origin for Herd

Old English hirde; related to Old Norse hirthir, Gothic hairdeis, Old High German hirti, Old Saxon hirdi, herdi; see herd 1

Synonyms for Herd

brood, flock, horde, mob, swarm, throng, assemblage, bevy, clan, collection, covey, crowd, crush, drift, drove, flight, gaggle, gathering, lot, mass, multitude, nest, pack, people, populace, press, rabble, school, hoi polloi