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Synonyms of herd in English:

herd


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noun

1‘large farms with big dairy herds’

SYNONYMS
flock, drove, pack, group, collection, fold

2‘we ran into a herd of movie actors’

SYNONYMS
crowd, group, bunch, horde, mass, mob, host, pack, multitude, throng, swarm, army, company, press

3the herd‘they consider themselves above the herd’

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the common people, the masses, the public, the people, the rank and file, the populace, the multitude, the crowd, the commonality, the commonalty, the third estate, the plebeians
derogatory the hoi polloi, the mob, the proletariat, the common herd, the rabble, the riff-raff, the canaille, the ragtag, the ragtag and bobtail, the great unwashed, the proles, the plebs, the peasants
ANTONYMS

the elite


verb

1‘he and the boys herded the sheep into the pen’

SYNONYMS
drive, round up, shepherd, gather, collect, assemble, guide, kettle

2‘we all herded into a storage room’

SYNONYMS
crowd, pack, flock
cluster, huddle, group, gather

3‘they live by herding reindeer’

SYNONYMS
look after, take care of, keep, tend, watch, watch over, mind, guard
ANTONYMS

neglect