- a group of animals of the same type that live and feed together
- a herd of cows/deer/elephants
- a beef/dairy herd
- The herd grazes/graze outdoors between March and November.
Extra ExamplesTopics Animalsc1- The animals tend to graze in a herd.
- Zebras live in herds with a dominant stallion as the herd leader.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- great
- huge
- large
- …
- instinct
- in a/the herd
- herd of
- a member of a herd
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- (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)?
- They hired a thundering herd of corporate executives.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- common
- thundering
- follow
- stand apart from
- stand out from
- …
- instinct
- mentality
Word OriginOld English heord, of Germanic origin; related to German Herde.
Idioms
See herd in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryride herd on somebody/something
- (North American English, informal) to keep watch or control over somebody/something
- police riding herd on crowds of youths on the streets
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