herder

herd

H0159400 (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.

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[Middle English, from Old English heord.]

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herd′er n.

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Her·der

H0159600 (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.

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

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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)

herd•er

(ˈhɜr dər)

n. a person in charge of a herd. [1625–35]

Her•der

(ˈhɛər dər)

n. Johann Gottfried von, 1744–1803, German philosopher and critic.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Herder - German philosopher who advocated intuition over reason (1744-1803)Johann Gottfried von Herder
	2.	herder - someone who drives a herd drover, herdsmangoat herder, goatherd - a person who tends a flock of goatshired 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 flockpigman, swineherd - a herder or swine