herd
noun [C, + sing/pl verb] /hɜːd/
/hɝːd/ Definition
› a large group of animals of the same type that live and feed together: a herd of cattle/elephants/goatsAnimal groupings › 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).Groups of people
(Definition of herd noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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