herd
A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeperA number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper.
» Tom has a herd of goats.
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5 senses(collective)A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper.
a herd of cattle
a herd of sheep
Herde, Pferdeherde
ста́доstádo, табу́нtabún
ста́доstádo, череда́čeredá, ота́раotára
(collective)Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company.
Herde
ста́доstádo, гуртgurt, табу́нtabún
ста́доstádo, череда́čeredá, гуртhurt
(derogatory, usually)A crowd, a mass of people or things; a rabble.
I was never one to follow the herd.
ста́доstádo, толпа́tolpá, табу́нtabún
a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things
(collective)A collection of things, especially vehicles.
Herds of buses spread across the streets.
(archaic)Someone who keeps a group of domestic animals.
Near-synonym: herdsman
Hirt, Hirte
a group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans
Examples
312 sentencesTom has a herd of goats.
Tom saw a small herd of elephants.
ruТом видел небольшое стадо слонов. — marafon
deTom sah eine kleine Herde Elefanten. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
A giraffe herd has close bonds.
Стадо жирафів має тісні зв’язки — Ahha
The dogs help herd the cattle.
ruСобаки помогают пасти скот. — sharptoothed
Giraffes travel in herds called towers.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English herde, heerde, heorde, from Old English hierd, heord (“herd, flock; keFrom Middle English herde, heerde, heorde, from Old English hierd, heord (“herd, flock; keeping, care, custody”), from Proto-West Germanic *herdu, from Proto-Germanic *herdō (“herd”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerdʰ- (“file, row, herd”). Cognate with German Herde, Danish hjord, Swedish hjord. Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian herdhe (“nest”) and Serbo-Croatian krdo.
From Middle English herde, from Old English hirde, hierde, from Proto-West Germanic *hirdī, from Proto-Germanic *hirdijaz. Cognate with German Hirte, Swedish herde, Danish hyrde.
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