herd

herd is a 4-letter English word with 14 senses as adjective, noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Haired. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 7 · 14 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Haired.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. A crowd of low people; a rabble.
4. noun. One who herds or assembles domestic animals; a herdsman; -- much used in composition; as, a shepherd; a goatherd, and the like.
5. intransitive verb. To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company; as, sheep herd on many hills.
6. intransitive verb. To associate; to ally one's self with, or place one's self among, a group or company.
7. intransitive verb. To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.
8. transitive verb. To form or put into a herd.
9. noun. a group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans
10. noun. a group of wild mammals of one species that remain together: antelope or elephants or seals or whales or zebra
11. noun. a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things

    "his brilliance raised him above the ruck"

    "the children resembled a fairy herd"

    Synonyms: ruck

12. verb. move together, like a herd
13. verb. cause to herd, drive, or crowd together

    "We herded the children into a spare classroom"

    Synonyms: crowd

14. verb. keep, move, or drive animals

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

Synonyms

ruck, crowd

Common word forms

herds, herded, herder, herding

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