Definitions for herdhɜrd

This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word herd

Princeton's WordNet

  1. herd(noun)


  2. herd(noun)


  3. ruck, herd(verb)

    a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things


  4. herd, crowd(verb)

    cause to herd, drive, or crowd together

    "We herded the children into a spare classroom"

  5. herd(verb)

    move together, like a herd

  6. herd(verb)

    keep, move, or drive animals


Webster Dictionary

  1. Herd(adj)


  2. Herd(noun)


  3. Herd(noun)

    a crowd of low people; a rabble

  4. Herd(noun)


  5. Herd(verb)


  6. Herd(verb)


  7. Herd(verb)

    to act as a herdsman or a shepherd

  8. Herd(verb)

    to form or put into a herd

  9. Origin: [See 2d Herd.]


  1. Herd


Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Herd

    hėrd, n. a number of beasts feeding together, and watched or tended: any collection of beasts, as distinguished from a flock: a company of people, the rabble.—v.i. to run in herds.—v.t. to tend, as a herdsman.—ns. Herd, one who tends a herd; Herd′groom (Spens.), a shepherd-lad; Herds′-grass, timothy-grass; Herds′man, a man employed to herd or tend cattle—(B.) Herd′man. [A.S. hirde, hierde; Ger. heerde, Sw. hjord.]

British National Corpus

  1. Nouns Frequency



  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of herd in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of herd in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Sample Sentences & Example Usage

  1. Corey Ireland:

    His herd grew very quickly.

  2. Hussein Abdallah:

    There is no dove, no sheep in that herd.

  3. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 116:

    Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

  4. Friedrich Nietzsche:

    Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

  5. Simone Netherlands:

    This herd can be managed at a sustainable number.

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