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herd

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of herd

1 a group of domestic animals assembled or herded together

  • the great herds of cattle that cowboys once drove across the plains
Synonyms of herd

drove, flock
Words Related to herd

colony, covey, gaggle, pack, plump [chiefly dialect], pod, school, swarm

2 the body of the community as contrasted with the elite

  • aspire to achieve something, to distinguish yourself from the herd
Synonyms of herd

commoners, commons, crowd, hoi polloi, mass, millions, mob, multitude, people, plebeians, plebs, populace, public, rank and file
Words Related to herd

cattle, proletariat, rabble, rabblement, ragtag and bobtail, riffraff, rout, scum, tag, rag, and bobtail (or tagrag and bobtail), trash, unwashed

bourgeoisie, middle class
Near Antonyms of herd

gentility, gentlefolk (also gentlefolks), gentry, haute monde, nobility, patriciate, peerage, quality, royalty, society
Antonyms of herd

A-list, aristocracy, best, choice, corps d'elite, cream, elect, elite, fat, flower, pick, pink, pride, upper crust

3 a great number of persons or things massed together

  • gearing up for the herd of holiday shoppers at the mall on the day after Thanksgiving
Synonyms of herd

army, bike [chiefly Scottish], cram, crowd, crush, drove, flock, horde, host, legion, mass, mob, multitude, press, rout, scrum, swarm, throng
Words Related to herd

masses, millions, rabble, rabblement, riffraff

gaggle

heap, mountain, pile

jam, logjam

herd

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of herd

to urge, push, or force onward

  • the guards briskly herded us through the museum in order to prevent overcrowding
Synonyms of herd

drive, punch, run
Words Related to herd

shepherd

wrangle

egg, exhort, flog, goad, hound, press, prick, prod, prompt, scourge, spur, whip

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