herd's

Cattle group's possessive

Herd's is the possessive form of herd, indicating something belonging to or associated with a group of animals: The herd's movement across the plain kicked up dust.

It can also apply to figurative herds—groups of people moving or thinking together: The herd's instinct was to follow the loudest voice.

possession

cattle

Domesticated bovines kept commercially

  • flockAnimals gathered together
  • sheepWoolly farm animal
  • goatsHorned farm ruminants

livestock · animals · grazing · pasture · rancher · drover · territory · watering hole · breeding stock · calves

social

mentality

Characteristic way of reasoning

crowd · masses · instinct · behavior · psychology · mob · collective · pack · consensus · imitation

behavior

movement

Change in position

pace · instinct · formation · clustering · following · scattering · gathering · settling · rest · alertness

Opposites
collective vs. individual possession

herd'sindividual's

Belonging to one entity

one's · person's · outsider's · rogue's

group type

herd'sswarm's

Belonging to a mass

flock's · pack's · school's · colony's · pride's

Phrases
Family

herd, shepherd, herds, herding, herder, herded, herders, goatherd, shepherding

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