Synonyms of the word herd


HERDCONCOURSE - CROWD - DISPLACE - KEEP - MOVE - MULTITUDE - RUCK - THRONG

herd

  • n. A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper.
  • n. Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company.
  • n. A crowd, a mass of people; now usually pejorative: a rabble.
  • v. (intransitive) To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company.
  • v. (transitive) To unite or associate in a herd.
  • v. (intransitive) To associate; to ally oneself with, or place oneself among, a group or company.
  • n. (now rare) Someone who keeps a group of domestic animals; a herdsman.
  • v. (intransitive, Scotland) To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.
  • v. (transitive) To form or put into a herd.

concourse

  • n. A large open space in or in front of a building where people can gather, particularly one joining various…
  • n. A large group of people; a crowd.
  • n. The running or flowing together of things; the meeting of things; confluence.
  • n. An open space, especially in a park, where several roads or paths meet.
  • n. (obsolete) concurrence; cooperation.

crowd

  • v. (intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.
  • v. (intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers; to swarm; to throng.
  • v. (transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
  • v. (transitive) To fill by pressing or thronging together.
  • v. (transitive, often used with "out of" or "off") To push, to press, to shove.
  • v. (nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
  • v. (nautical, of a square-rigged ship, transitive) To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
  • v. (transitive) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
  • n. A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
  • n. Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
  • n. (with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
  • n. A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
  • n. (obsolete) Alternative form of crwth.
  • n. (now dialectal) A fiddle.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To play on a crowd; to fiddle.

displace

  • v. To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
  • v. To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
  • v. (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
  • v. (psycology) to repress.

keep

  • v. To continue in (a course or mode of action); not to intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
  • v. (heading, transitive) To hold the status of something.
  • v. (heading, intransitive) To hold or be held in a state.
  • v. (obsolete) To wait for, keep watch for.
  • v. (intransitive, cricket) To act as wicket-keeper.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take care; to be solicitous; to watch.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be in session; to take place.
  • v. (transitive) To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; not to swerve from or violate.
  • v. (transitive, dated) To confine oneself to; not to quit; to remain in.
  • v. (transitive, dated, by extension) To visit (a place) often; to frequent.
  • n. (obsolete) Care, notice.
  • n. (historical) The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls. (According to, the…
  • n. The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance.
  • n. The act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge.
  • n. The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case.
  • n. (obsolete) That which is kept in charge; a charge.
  • n. (engineering) A cap for holding something, such as a journal box, in place.

move

  • v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
  • v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
  • v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
  • v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
  • v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
  • v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
  • v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
  • v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
  • n. The act of moving; a movement.
  • n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
  • n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
  • n. The event of changing one's residence.
  • n. A change in strategy.
  • n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
  • n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

multitude

  • n. A great amount or number, often of people; myriad; profusion; abundance.
  • n. The mass of ordinary people; the populous or the masses.

ruck

  • n. A throng or crowd of people or things; a mass, a pack.
  • n. (Australian Rules Football) Contesting a bounce or ball up; used appositionally in "ruck contest". Rucks…
  • n. (rugby union) The situation formed when a runner is brought to ground and one or more members of each…
  • n. The common mass of people or things; the ordinary ranks.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To act as a ruckman in a stoppage in Australian Rules football.
  • v. (transitive) To contest the possession of the ball in a game of Rugby.
  • v. (transitive) To crease or fold.
  • v. (intransitive) To become folded.
  • n. A crease, a wrinkle, a pucker, as on fabric.
  • v. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) To cower or huddle together; to squat; to sit, as a hen on eggs.
  • n. Obsolete form of roc.
  • n. (slang, especially military) A rucksack; a large backpack.
  • v. To carry a backpack while hiking or marching.

throng

  • n. A group of people crowded or gathered closely together; a multitude.
  • n. A group of things; a host or swarm.
  • v. (transitive) To crowd into a place, especially to fill it.
  • v. (intransitive) To congregate.
  • v. (transitive) To crowd or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings.
  • adj. (Scotland, Northern England, dialect) Filled with persons or objects; crowded.

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