herd
Meanings
Plural: herds
Noun
- a group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans
- a group of wild mammals of one species that remain together: antelope or elephants or seals or whales or zebra
- a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things
- "the children resembled a fairy herd"
- A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper.
- Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company.
- A crowd, a mass of people or things; a rabble.
- Someone who keeps a group of domestic animals.
Verb
- cause to herd, drive, or crowd together
- "We herded the children into a spare classroom"
- move together, like a herd
- keep, move, or drive animals
- "Who will be herding the cattle when the cowboy dies?"
- To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company.
- To unite or associate in a herd
- To manage, care for or guard a herd
- To associate; to ally oneself with, or place oneself among, a group or company.
- To move, or be moved, in a group. (of both animals and people)
- To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.
- To form or put into a herd.
- To move or drive a herd.
Origin / 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.
Scrabble Score: 8
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Words With Friends Score: 7
herd is a valid Words With Friends word