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verb. uk / hɜːd / us / hɝːd / [ I or T, + adv/prep ] to make animals move together as a group: An old woman was herding the goats. [ T + adv/prep ] mainly disapproving. to make people move somewhere as a group, often against their wishes or with difficulty. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
The meaning of HERD is a typically large group of animals of one kind kept together under human control. How to use herd in a sentence.
a large group of animals of the same type that live and feed together: a herd of cattle / elephants / goats. mainly disapproving. 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).
HERDING meaning: 1. present participle of herd 2. to make animals move together as a group: 3. to make people move…. Learn more.
Herding is the act of bringing individual animals together into a group ( herd ), maintaining the group, and moving the group from place to place—or any combination of those. Herding can refer either to the process of animals forming herds in the wild, or to human intervention forming herds for some purpose.
n. 1. a. A group of cattle or other large herbivorous mammals of a single kind kept together for a specific purpose. b. A number of wild animals of one species, especially large herbivorous mammals, that remain together as a group: a herd of elephants. 2. a. A large number of people; a crowd: a herd of stranded passengers. b.
Herd definition: a number of animals kept, feeding, or traveling together; drove; flock. See examples of HERD used in a sentence.
