herd – English noun declension

English noun forms of herd

Noun: herd
Singularherd
Pluralherds

Sample Sentences

  • a herd of cattle
  • a herd of sheep
  • a herd of goats
  • The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea. [1768, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard:]
  • Zakouma is the last place on Earth where you can see more than a thousand elephants on the move in a single, compact herd. [2007 March, J. Michael Fay, “Ivory Wars: Last Stand in Zakouma”, in National Geographic, section 47:]
  • Zebras can also be called a herd or a zeal. [2019 June 6, “A Gaggle, a Confusion and a Conspiracy - Bizarre Animal Collective Group Names”, in BBC, archived from the original on 01 Apr 2021:]
  • I was never one to follow the herd.
  • But far more numerous vvas the herd of ſuch, / VVho think too little, and vvho talk too much. [1681, [John Dryden], Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem, London: […] J[acob] T[onson] and are to be sold by W. Davis […], →OCLC, page 17:]
  • You can never interest the common herd in the abstract question. [1833 June 8, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “(please specify the chapter)”, in H[enry] N[elson] C[oleridge], editor, Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], published 1835, →OCLC:]
  • There were herds of leather sofas and enough computers to ensure that no prospective matriculant or visiting parent could enter a room and not see at least one available keyboard, not even in the dining hall or field house. [2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:]
  • Herds of buses spread across the streets.

Etymology

From Middle English herde, heerde, heorde, from Old English hierd, heord (“herd, flock; keeping, care, custody”), from Proto-West Germanic *herdu, from Proto-Germanic *herdō (“herd”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerdʰ- (“file, row, herd”). Cognate with German Herde, Danish hjord, Swedish hjord. Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian herdhe (“nest”) and Serbo-Croatian krdo. See: Middle English Nouns 'herde', German Nouns 'Herde', Danish Nouns 'hjord', Swedish Nouns 'hjord'.

Verbs referencing "herd"

German Nouns Herde, Hungarian Nouns csorda, Romanian Nouns cârd, Danish Nouns hjord, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns hjord, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns hjord, Faroese Nouns hjørð, Romanian Nouns cireadă, Gothic Nouns 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌳𐌰.