Dictionary Entry
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
- 1adjective
Haired.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
A crowd of low people; a rabble.
- 4noun
One who herds or assembles domestic animals; a herdsman; -- much used in composition; as, a shepherd; a goatherd, and the like.
- 5intransitive verb
To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company; as, sheep herd on many hills.
- 6intransitive verb
To associate; to ally one's self with, or place one's self among, a group or company.
- 7intransitive verb
To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.
- 8transitive verb
To form or put into a herd.
- 9noun
a group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans
- 10noun
a group of wild mammals of one species that remain together: antelope or elephants or seals or whales or zebra
- 11noun
a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things
"his brilliance raised him above the ruck"
"the children resembled a fairy herd"
Synonyms
- 12verb
move together, like a herd
- 13verb
cause to herd, drive, or crowd together
"We herded the children into a spare classroom"
Synonyms
- 14verb
keep, move, or drive animals
"Who will be herding the cattle when the cowboy dies?"
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