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Etymology

1. OE. herd, heord, AS. heord.
2. OE. hirde, herde, heorde, AS. hirde, hyrde, heorde. (Person who herds.)

Pronunciation
hî(r)d, /h��(r)d/, /<tt>h3:(r)d</tt>/
:Rhymes:English:-��(r)d|Rhymes: -��(r)d
Homophones: heard

Noun
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1. A number of beasts assembled together; as, a herd of horses, oxen, cattle, camels, elephants, deer, or swine; a particular stock or family of cattle.

#* 1768, w:Thomas Gray|Thomas Gray, s:Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard|Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,
#*: The lowing herd wind slowly o�er the lea.
#* 2007, J. Michael Fay, Ivory Wars: Last Stand in Zakouma, National Geographic (March 2007), 47,
#*: Zakouma is the last place on Earth where you can see more than a thousand elephants on the move in a single, compact herd.

1. A crowd of low people; a rabble.

#: But far more numerous was the herd of such Who think too little and who talk too much. Dryden.
#: You can never interest the common herd in the abstract question. Coleridge.

1. One who herds or assembles domestic animals; a herdsman; -- much used in composition; as, a shepherd; a goatherd, and the like.

Usage notes
Herd is distinguished from flock, as being chiefly applied to the larger animals. A number of cattle, when driven to market, is called a drove.

Translations
trans-top|number of beasts assembled together
Czech: t-|cs|stádo|n
Finnish: t-|fi|lauma
German: t+|de|Herde|f
Greek: (domestic):t|el|κο�άδι|n|scGrek (kopádi), (wild):t|el|αγέλη|f|scGrek (agéli)
Japanese: 群� (��, mure)
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Polish: stado n, trzoda (of pigs) f
Serbian: t-|sr|stado|n
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trans-top|crowd of low people
Czech: t-|cs|stádo|n
Finnish: t-|fi|lauma, t+|fi|rahvas
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Polish: t-|pl|stado|n
Serbian: t-|sr|stado|n
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trans-top|herdsman
Finnish: t+|fi|paimen
German: t-|de|Hirt|m, t|de|Hirte|m
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Polish: pasterz m
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ttbc|Albanian: kope f, pl
ttbc|Basque: saldo
ttbc|Catalan: ramat m
ttbc|Croatian: stado n, krdo n
ttbc|Hebrew: ע�ר m
ttbc|Hungarian: nyáj, csorda
ttbc|Romanian: turm� f, ciread� f, cârd f and m
ttbc|Slovak: stádo n, �rieda f
ttbc|Spanish: hato m, manada f, rebaño m
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Verb
en-verb

1. To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company; as, sheep herd on many hills.
2. To associate; to ally one's self with, or place one's self among, a group or company.

#: I�ll herd among his friends, and seem One of the number. Addison.

1. To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.
2. To form or put into a herd.

#: I heard the herd of cattle being herded home from a long way away.

Translations
trans-top|to unite or associate in a herd
Finnish: t-|fi|paimentaa
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Spanish: t+|es|conducir
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trans-top|to associate
Finnish: t+|fi|liittyä
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trans-top|to act as a herdsman
Finnish: t-|fi|paimentaa
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trans-top|to form or put into a herd
Finnish: t-|fi|paimentaa
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See also
Appendix:Collective nouns
drove
gather
muster
round up
ride herd on

Category:English collective nouns

Old High German

Etymology
West Germanic *hertha, whence also Old English heorþ

Noun
herd m

1. hearth

Category:Old High German nouns

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