Definitions for herd

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herd herd

Spelling: [hurd]

IPA: /hɜrd/

Herd is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in herd (dehr).

Definitions for herd

noun

1. a number of animals kept, feeding, or traveling together; drove; flock:
2. Sometimes Disparaging. a large group of people:
3. any large quantity:
4. the herd, the common people; masses; rabble:
5. a herdsman (usually used in combination):

Idioms

1. ride herd on, to have charge or control of; maintain discipline over:

verb (used with object)

1. to tend, drive, or lead (cattle, sheep, etc.).
2. to conduct or drive (a group of people) to a destination:

verb (used without object)

1. to unite or go in a herd; assemble or associate as a herd.

Origin of herd

before 1000; Middle English; Old English heord; cognate with Gothic hairda, German Herde

Examples for herd

This farm to which he had devoted his life was taking it from him by a member of its herd.

Somewhere on these six hundred acres was the herd and it was his chore to find it and bring it in.

herd immunity protects those people, because diseases constantly need fresh victims.

But ask any herd of overpopulating deer: nature punishes success.

I have in mind one old chap who used to herd the sheep on my uncle's farm.

Since measles is so contagious, even with herd immunity, it can find a weak link and spread.

The mahouts would have steered pairs of kookies so as to separate a grown elephant from the herd, squeezing in on either side.

While his trombone skills are decent, he certainly draws a crowd—or rather, a herd.

Only don't let the first woman that comes ridin' herd get her iron on you.

She had just been taken into the herd that season and had the place of the favorite next to the leader.