herd
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /hɜːd/
- (General American) IPA(key): /hɚd/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
- Homophone: heard
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Etymology 1
[edit]From 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 *ḱerdʰ- (“file, row, herd”). Cognate with German Herde, Danish hjord, Swedish hjord. Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian herdhe (“nest”) and Serbo-Croatian krdo.
Noun
[edit]herd (plural herds)
- A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper. [from 11th c.]
- a herd of cattle
- a herd of sheep
- a herd of goats
- 1768, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard:
- The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea.
- Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company. [from 13th c.]
- 2007 March, J. Michael Fay, “Ivory Wars: Last Stand in Zakouma”, in National Geographic, section 47:
- Zakouma is the last place on Earth where you can see more than a thousand elephants on the move in a single, compact herd.
- (now usually derogatory) A crowd, a mass of people or things; a rabble. [from 15th c.]
- 1681, [John Dryden], Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem. […], 3rd edition, London: […] J[acob] T[onson] and are to be sold by W. Davis […], published 1682, →OCLC, page 15:
- But far more numerous was the Herd of ſuch, / Who think too little, and who talk too much.
- 1833 June 8, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk:
- You can never interest the common herd in the abstract question.
- 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
- There were herds of leather sofas and enough computers to ensure that no prospective matriculant or visiting parent could enter a room and not see at least one available keyboard, not even in the dining hall or field house.
Hyponyms
[edit]- (group of elephants): parade
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Verb
[edit]herd (third-person singular simple present herds, present participle herding, simple past and past participle herded)
- (intransitive) To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company.
- Sheep herd on many hills.
- 1953, Janice Holt Giles, The Kentuckians:
- The women bunched up in little droves and let their tongues clack, and the men herded together and passed a jug around and, to tell the truth, let their tongues clack too.
- 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 167:
- Any predator that preys on animals that herd or school, has to be able to single out one individual to attack.
- (transitive) To unite or associate in a herd
- (transitive) To manage, care for or guard a herd
- He is employed to herd the goats.
- (intransitive) To associate; to ally oneself with, or place oneself among, a group or company.
- 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act III, scene i, pages 39–40:
- I’ll herd among his Friends, and ſeem
One of the Number, […]
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
- "[W]hy, I say, oh stranger, dost thou think that I herd here with barbarians lower than the beasts?"
- To move, or be moved, in a group. (of both animals and people)
- On alighting at the station, we were all herded over the footbridge and through a side exit.
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Etymology 2
[edit]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.
Noun
[edit]herd (plural herds)
- (now rare) Someone who keeps a group of domestic animals.
- 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
- John Dodds, the herd who bode in the place, was standing at the door, and he looked to see who was on the road so late.
- 2000, Alasdair Grey, The Book of Prefaces, Bloomsbury, published 2002, page 38:
- Any talent which gives a good new thing to others is a miracle, but commentators have thought it extra miraculous that England's first known poet was an illiterate herd.
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Verb
[edit]herd (third-person singular simple present herds, present participle herding, simple past and past participle herded)
- (intransitive, Scotland) To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.
- (transitive) To form or put into a herd.
- (transitive) To move or drive a herd.
- I heard the herd of cattle being herded home from a long way away.
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[edit]Middle English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]herd
- Alternative form of herde (“herd”)
Etymology 2
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[edit]herd
- Alternative form of herde (“herder”)
Etymology 3
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[edit]herd
- Alternative form of hird (“household”)
Norwegian Bokmål
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[edit]herd
- imperative of herde
Norwegian Nynorsk
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[edit]Noun
[edit]herd f (definite singular herda, indefinite plural herdar or herder, definite plural herdane or herdene)
Etymology 2
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[edit]Participle
[edit]herd (neuter herdt, definite singular and plural herde)
- past participle of herde
References
[edit]- “herd” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
- Ivar Aasen (1850) “Hær”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog[1] (in Danish), Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000
Old High German
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[edit]From Proto-West Germanic *herþ.
Noun
[edit]herd m
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