Synonyms for herd
hɜrdherd

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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

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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)

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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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1. Tom Strother:

   When I put my post up on Facebook yes I was a excited Dad. And also I wanted to make people aware that there is elk in northern Missouri. Donald White said his daughter has faced social media bullying since the incident. (Donald White) There’s no hunting season for elk in Missouri. The state’s conservation department reintroduced the animal at Peck Ranch Conservation Area in 2011 and is currently growing a herd. However, the elk Wilson shot was about 200 miles away from the herd, Springfield News-Leader reported. There are no reports of elk in this area. It was kind of a surprise to us. There was no evidence of any ear tags or collars on this one.

2. Dale Fisher:

   We know we need to get to herd immunity and we need that in a majority of countries, so we are not going to see that in 2021, there might be some countries that might achieve it but even then that will not create ‘normal’ especially in terms of border controls.

3. Daniel Lim:

   The market can’t sustain that many; there’s going to be a thinning out of the herd.

4. Guillermo Muñoz:

   I want to make sure that I'm protected and I want to make sure that, you know, that we protect others, the quicker we reach herd immunity, the quicker we will be able to go back to as normal a life as we possibly can.

5. Hannah Simone:

   I had my bangs and a high ponytail and Kim had just gotten bangs … I was n’t on a show — nothing. And then all of sudden this herd of paparazziwas chasing me down a street screaming, ‘ Kim ! ’ I did n’t know what was happening, I did n’t know who Kim was, it was n’t untila friend down the road yelled atme, ‘ They think you’re Kim Kardashian ! ’ I was like — what the heck ?