Synonyms for herd
hɜrdherd

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. herd

   Group is the general word for any gathering of a small number of objects, whether of persons, animals, or inanimate things. The individuals in a brood or litter are related to each other; those in the other groups may not be. Brood is used chiefly of fowls and birds, litter of certain quadrupeds which bring forth many young at a birth; we speak of a brood of chickens, a litter of puppies; brood is sometimes applied to a family of young children. Bevy is used of birds, and figuratively of any bright and lively group of women or children, but rarely of men. Flock is applied to birds and to some of the smaller animals; herd is confined to the larger animals; we speak of a bevy of quail, a covey of partridges, a flock of blackbirds, or a flock of sheep, a herd of cattle, horses, buffaloes, or elephants, a pack of wolves, a pack of hounds, a swarm of bees. A collection of animals driven or gathered for driving is called a drove.

   Synonyms:
   bevy, brood, covey, drove, flock, group, hatch, litter, lot, pack, set, swarm

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:4.0 / 2 votes

1. herdnoun

   a group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans

   Synonyms:
   ruck

2. herdnoun

   a group of wild mammals of one species that remain together: antelope or elephants or seals or whales or zebra

   Synonyms:
   ruck

3. ruck, herdverb

   a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things

   "his brilliance raised him above the ruck"; "the children resembled a fairy herd"

   Synonyms:
   pucker, ruck

4. herd, crowdverb

   cause to herd, drive, or crowd together

   "We herded the children into a spare classroom"

   Synonyms:
   push, crowd, crowd together

5. herdverb

   move together, like a herd

   Synonyms:
   crowd

6. herdverb

   keep, move, or drive animals

   "Who will be herding the cattle when the cowboy dies?"

   Synonyms:
   crowd

Matched Categories

1. • Animal Group
   • Crowd
   • Keep
   • Move

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. herdnoun

   Synonyms:
   drove (of the larger animals)

2. herdnoun

   Synonyms:
   crowd, rabble, multitude

3. herdverb

   Synonyms:
   associate (as beasts), keep company

4. herdverb

   Synonyms:
   [Pennsylvania.] Red-top (agrostis vulgaris)

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. herdnoun

   Synonyms:
   drove, rabble, mob, multitude

   Associated words:
   gregarious, gregal

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "herd":

   flock, horde, clan, livestock, hard, fold, bunch

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How to use herd in a sentence?

1. Margo Andrae:

   There's no vaccine ... so it can wipe out the entire herd.

2. Walter Lippmann:

   The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.

3. Nachman Ash:

   The price of herd immunity is very many infections, and that may end up happening, but we don’t want to reach it by means of infections.

4. Barbara Byrne:

   Job growth in non-traditional tourism sectors like tech and finance really had an impact on Florida markets and there’s always this herd mentality in the finance sector, so a lot of hedge funds either moved to Florida or they set up an office.

5. Carl Jung:

   Thinking is difficult. Therefore, let the herd pronounce judgement.