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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1. Irvin Feld:

   We have the largest and only sustainable herd of Asian elephants in the Western Hemisphere.

2. Vaccine California website:

   The current rate of vaccination in too many of California's schools is below the level needed for 'herd immunity' -- the critical percentage needed to prevent small outbreaks from spreading and become epidemics.

3. Rob Shumaker:

   This is probably just as difficult for our elephants. We know that elephants grieve. They are intensely social, and weve seen some pretty dramatic responses from the rest of our herd.

4. Noah Greenwald:

   The highest priority is augmenting the herd with more animals and protecting their habitat from snowmobiles.

5. John Steinbeck, The Moon is Down:

   Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.