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herd
noun
1 herd
A group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans.
Roget 102:
multitude;
numerous
etc.
adj.;
numerosity,
numerality;
multiplicity;
profusion
etc.
(plenty)
639;
legion,
host;
great number,
large number,
round number,
enormous number;
a quantity,
numbers,
array,
sight,
army,
sea,
galaxy;
scores,
peck,
bushel,
shoal,
swarm,
draught,
bevy,
cloud,
flock,
herd,
drove,
flight,
covey,
hive,
brood,
litter,
farrow,
fry,
nest;
crowd
etc.
(assemblage)
72;
lots;
all in the world and his wife.
[Increase of number]
greater number,
majority;
multiplication,
multiple.
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Roget 72:
assemblage;
collection,
collocation,
colligation†;
compilation,
levy,
gathering,
ingathering,
muster,
attroupement†;
team;
concourse,
conflux†,
congregation,
contesseration†,
convergence
etc.
290;
meeting,
levee,
reunion,
drawing room,
at home;
conversazione [It]
etc.
(social gathering)
892;
assembly,
congress;
convention,
conventicle;
gemote†;
conclave
etc.
(council)
696;
posse,
posse comitatus [Lat.];
Noah's ark.
miscellany,
collectanea†;
museum,
menagerie
etc.
(store)
636;
museology†.
crowd,
throng,
group;
flood,
rush,
deluge;
rabble,
mob,
press,
crush,
cohue†,
horde,
body,
tribe;
crew,
gang,
knot,
squad,
band,
party;
swarm,
shoal,
school,
covey,
flock,
herd,
drove;
atajo†;
bunch,
drive,
force,
mulada [U.S.];
remuda†;
roundup [U.S.];
array,
bevy,
galaxy;
corps,
company,
troop,
troupe,
task force;
army,
regiment
etc.
(combatants)
726;
host
etc.
(multitude)
102;
populousness.
clan,
brotherhood,
fraternity,
sorority,
association
etc.
(party)
712.
volley,
shower,
storm,
cloud.
group,
cluster,
Pleiades,
clump,
pencil;
set,
batch,
lot,
pack;
budget,
assortment,
bunch;
parcel;
packet,
package;
bundle,
fascine†,
fasces†,
bale;
seron†,
seroon†;
fagot,
wisp,
truss,
tuft;
shock,
rick,
fardel†,
stack,
sheaf,
haycock†;
fascicle,
fascicule†,
fasciculus [Lat.],
gavel,
hattock†,
stook†.
accumulation
etc.
(store)
636;
congeries,
heap,
lump,
pile,
rouleau†,
tissue,
mass,
pyramid;
bing†;
drift;
snowball,
snowdrift;
acervation†,
cumulation;
glomeration†,
agglomeration;
conglobation†;
conglomeration,
conglomerate;
coacervate [Chem],
coacervation [Chem],
coagmentation†,
aggregation,
concentration,
congestion,
omnium gaterum [Lat.],
spicilegium†,
black hole of Calcutta;
quantity
etc.
(greatness)
31.
collector,
gatherer;
whip,
whipper in.
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Dutch: kudde
Polish: stado, horda
2 herd
A group of wild mammals of one species that remain together: antelope or elephants or seals or whales or zebra.
Dutch: kudde
3 herd
A crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things:
— The children resembled a fairy herd.
synonym: ruck.
Dutch: kudde
verb
1 herd
Cause to herd, drive, or crowd together:
— We herded the children into a spare classroom.
synonym: crowd.
Roget 72:
assemble
[be or come together],
collect,
muster;
meet,
unite,
join,
rejoin;
cluster,
flock,
swarm,
surge,
stream,
herd,
crowd,
throng,
associate;
congregate,
conglomerate,
concentrate;
precipitate;
center round,
rendezvous,
resort;
come together,
flock get together,
pig together;
forgather;
huddle;
reassemble.
[get or bring together]
assemble,
muster;
bring together,
get together,
put together,
draw together,
scrape together,
lump together;
collect,
collocate,
colligate†;
get,
whip in;
gather;
hold a meeting;
convene,
convoke,
convocate†;
rake up,
dredge;
heap,
mass,
pile;
pack,
put up,
truss,
cram;
acervate†;
agglomerate,
aggregate;
compile;
group,
aggroup†,
concentrate,
unite;
collect into a focus,
bring into a focus;
amass,
accumulate
etc.
(store)
636;
collect in a dragnet;
heap Ossa upon Pelion.
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2 herd
Move together, like a herd.
3 herd
Keep, move, or drive animals.
Dutch: kudde
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