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herd
(hûrd)n.
1.
a. A group of cattle or other large herbivorous mammals of a single kind kept together for a specific purpose.
b. A number of wild animals of one species, especially large herbivorous mammals, 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).
v. herd·ed, herd·ing, herds
v.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.]
herd′er n.
Her·der
(hĕr′dər), Johann Gottfried von 1744-1803. German philosopher and writer whose theory of culture and advocacy of intuition over rationality greatly influenced Goethe and formed the basis of German romanticism.
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herder
(ˈhɜːdə)n
(Agriculture) chiefly US a person who cares for or drives herds of cattle or flocks of sheep, esp on an open range. Brit equivalent: herdsman
Herder
(German ˈhɛrdər)n
(Biography) Johann Gottfried von (joˈhan ˈɡɔtfriːt fɔn). 1744–1803, German philosopher, critic, and poet, the leading figure in the Sturm und Drang movement in German literature. His chief work is Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man (1784–91)
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herd•er
(ˈhɜr dər)n.
a person in charge of a herd.
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Her•der
(ˈhɛər dər)n.
Johann Gottfried von, 1744–1803, German philosopher and critic.
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Noun | 1. | Herder - German philosopher who advocated intuition over reason (1744-1803) |
2. | herder - someone who drives a herd goat herder, goatherd - a person who tends a flock of goats hired hand, hired man, hand - a hired laborer on a farm or ranch; "the hired hand fixed the railing"; "a ranch hand" sheepherder, sheepman, shepherd - a herder of sheep (on an open range); someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock |
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