Usually means: Group of animals living together.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. herd, the herd: Merriam-Webster
  2. herd: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. herd: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. herd: Collins English Dictionary
  5. herd: Vocabulary.com
  6. Herd, herd: Wordnik
  7. herd: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. herd: Wiktionary
  9. herd: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. herd: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. herd: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Herd, herd: Dictionary.com
  13. herd: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. herd: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Herd (disambiguation), Herd (surname), Herd, The Herd (Australian band), The Herd (British band), The Herd (The Herd album), The Herd (UK band), The Herd (Wipers album), The Herd (hooligan firm), The Herd, The herd: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Herd: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. herd: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. herd: Rhymezone
  19. Herd (m), herd: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. herd: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. herd: FreeDictionary.org
  22. herd: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. herd: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. the herd: Dictionary.com
  25. herd: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. herd: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. herd: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. herd: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Herd: Africa Glossary
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  3. HERD: Acronym Finder
  4. herd: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Herd: Easton Bible
  2. Herd: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)
  2. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Herd, The Herd: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See herded as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper.
noun:  Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company.
noun:  (now usually derogatory) A crowd, a mass of people or things; a rabble.
verb:  (intransitive) To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company.
verb:  (transitive) To unite or associate in a herd
verb:  (transitive) To manage, care for or guard a herd
verb:  (intransitive) To associate; to ally oneself with, or place oneself among, a group or company.
verb:  To move, or be moved, in a group. (of both animals and people)
noun:  (now rare) Someone who keeps a group of domestic animals.
verb:  (intransitive, Scotland) To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.
verb:  (transitive) To form or put into a herd.
verb:  (transitive) To move or drive a herd.
noun:  A surname.

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