herd

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

herd [herd herds herded herding] noun, verb BrE [hɜːd] NAmE [hɜːrd]
noun
1. a group of animals of the same type that live and feed together
•a herd of cows/deer/elephants
•a beef/dairy herd
compare ↑flock
2. (usually disapproving)a large group of people of the same type
•She pushed her way through a herd of lunchtime drinkers.
•the common herd (= ordinary people)
•Why follow the herd (= do and think the same as everyone else)?
see ride herd on sb/sth at ↑ride _v.

Word Origin:
Old English heord, of Germanic origin; related to German Herde.

Thesaurus:
herd noun C+sing./pl. v.
•a herd of cows/deer/elephants
flock • • pack • • swarm •
a herd/flock/pack/swarm of sth
do sth in herds/flocks/packs/swarms
a herd/flock of sheep
the herd/pack instinct

Example Bank:
•If you feel so strongly, why follow the herd= do the same as everybody else?
•She prided herself on standing out from the common herd.
•The animals tend to graze in a herd.
•The farm has only a small dairy herd.
•They hired a thundering herd of corporate executives.
•a large herd of cows
•Zebras live in herds with a dominant stallion as the herd leader.
•a herd of cows/deer/elephants

 
verb
1. intransitive, transitive to move or make sb/sth move in a particular direction
•+ adv./prep. We all herded on to the bus.
•~ sb/sth + adv./prep. They were herded together into trucks and driven away.
2. transitive ~ sth to make animals move together as a group
•a shepherd herding his flock
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
Old English heord, of Germanic origin; related to German Herde.
 

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  ruck, crowd