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herd

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"Group of cattle"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /hɜːd/Part of speech verb, nounSorted dehrStarts with HEnds with D1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. move together, like a herd

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • a herd of cattle
  • a herd of sheep
  • a herd of goats

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