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herdnoun [ C, + sing/pl verb ]

uk ​ /hɜːd/ us ​ /hɝːd/

› 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).

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herdverb

uk ​ /hɜːd/ us ​ /hɝːd/

(Definition of “herd” from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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herdnoun [ C ]

us ​ /hɜrd/

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

a herd of elephants

herdverb [ T ]

us ​ /hɜrd/

› 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.

(Definition of “herd” from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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