Synonyms for cattle
ˈkæt lcat·tle

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1. cattlenoun

   Domesticated bovine animals (cows, bulls, steers etc).

   Do you want to raise cattle?

   Synonyms:
   Bos

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1. cattle, cows, kine, oxen, Bos taurusnoun

   domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age

   "so many head of cattle"; "wait till the cows come home"; "seven thin and ill-favored kine"- Bible; "a team of oxen"

   Synonyms:
   oxen, cows, kine

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. cattlenoun

   Synonyms:
   bovine quadrupeds

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1. cattlenoun

   Synonyms:
   kine, bos, bovine quadrupeds, taurus

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1. List of paraphrases for "cattle":

   livestock, bovine, bovines, cows, ngau, animals, niu, veal, beef, herds, beasts, oxen

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1. Nampie Motloung:

   I have no choice but to sell some of my cows. I must do it before they die, it pains me to do so. My cattle are my family's inheritance.

2. Marcelo Goncalves Campos:

   I've been an inspector for almost 20 years and this is really one of the worst cases I've seen, they are being treated, without any exaggeration, like animals. Sleeping in the same corral as the cattle.

3. Lata Bandgar:

   They are treated worse than animals - even cattle live with greater security, greater comfort. It is a dangerous world for them. So if she can stake her claim to land or property, then she has some security. Without it, she has nothing.

4. Shelby Cornelius:

   As time goes on, goats won't surpass dairy cattle, but I think they're going to become more competitive.

5. Karl Marx:

   In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.