herds

6 definitions • 5 examples

a large group of animals of the same type that live and feed together:

a herd of cattle/elephants/goats

a large group of people that is considered together as a group and not separately:

Poor Janine - she just follows the herd (= does what all the other people are doing).

to make animals move together as a group:

An old woman was herding the goats.

to make people move somewhere as a group, often against their wishes or with difficulty

a large group of animals of the same type that feed, travel, or are kept together:

a herd of elephants

to move together as a group, or to cause animals or people to move together in a group:

The teachers herded the children into buses.