herd

Từ điển American Heritage Dictionary 4th

herd (hûrd)n.
1.
a. A group of cattle or other domestic animals of a single kind kept together for a specific purpose.
b. A number of wild animals of one species that remain together as a group:
a herd of elephants.
2.
a. A large number of people; a crowd:
a herd of stranded passengers.
b. The multitude of common people regarded as a mass: “It is the luxurious and dissipated who set the fashions which the herd so diligently follow” (Henry David Thoreau). See Synonyms at flock¹.v. herd·ed, herd·ing, herdsv. intr.
To come together in a herd:
The sheep herded for warmth.v. tr.
1. To gather, keep, or drive (animals) in a herd.
2. To tend (sheep or cattle).
3. To gather and place into a group or mass:
herded the children into the auditorium. [Middle English, from Old English heord.]

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  ruck, crowd