Definizione monolingua

herd

herd (third-person singular simple present herds, present participle herding, simple past and past participle herded)

1. (intransitive) To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company.

   Sheep herd on many hills.

2. (intransitive) To associate; to ally ones self with, or place ones self among, a group or company.

   (Can we date this quote?) I’ll herd among his friends, and seem One of the number. Addison.

herd (plural herds)

1. A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper. [from 11th c.]
   • 1768, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,

     The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea.

2. Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company. [from 13th c.]
   • 2007, J. Michael Fay, Ivory Wars: Last Stand in Zakouma, National Geographic (March 2007), 47,

     Zakouma is the last place on Earth where you can see more than a thousand elephants on the move in a single, compact herd.

3. A crowd, a mass of people; now usually pejorative: a rabble. [from 15th c.]

   But far more numerous was the herd of such / Who think too little and who talk too much. Dryden.

   You can never interest the common herd in the abstract question. Coleridge.

Definizione dizionario herd

	imbrancare
	to act as a herdsman

ammassarsi

armento

banda

branco

condurre

folla

gregge

gruppo

mandria

mandriano

moltitudine

pastore

riunirsi

sorvegliare

spingere

truppa

Altri significati:

to form or put into a herd

Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company. [from 13th c.]

(intransitive, Scottish) To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.

(Can we date this quote?) '''I’ll herd among his friends, and seem One of the number.''' Addison.

cluster (of stars)

(intransitive) To associate; to ally one's self with, or place one's self among, a group or company.

A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper. [from 11th c.]

(transitive) To form or put into a herd.

crowd of low people

to unite or associate in a herd

herdsman

to associate

(now rare) Someone who keeps a group of domestic animals; a herdsman.

number of beasts assembled together

A crowd, a mass of people; now usually pejorative: a rabble. [from 15th c.]

(intransitive) To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company.