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herd
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /h??d/
- (General American) IPA(key): /h?d/
- Rhymes: -??(?)d
- Homophone: heard
Etymology 1
From Middle English herde, heerde, heorde, from Old English hierd, heord (“herd, flock; keeping, care, custody”), from Proto-Germanic *herd? (“herd”), from Proto-Indo-European *?erd?- (“file, row, herd”). Cognate with German Herde, Swedish hjord. Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian herdhe (“nest”) and Serbo-Croatian krdo.
Noun
herd (plural herds)
- A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper. [from 11th c.]
- 1768, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,
- The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea.
- 1768, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,
- Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company. [from 13th c.]
- 2007, J. Michael Fay, Ivory Wars: Last Stand in Zakouma, National Geographic (March 2007), 47,
- 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, J. Michael Fay, Ivory Wars: Last Stand in Zakouma, National Geographic (March 2007), 47,
- (now usually derogatory) A crowd, a mass of people; now usually pejorative: a rabble. [from 15th c.]
- 1833, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk, 8 June 1833
- You can never interest the common herd in the abstract question.
- 1833, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk, 8 June 1833
Derived terms
- herd immunity
- herd instinct
Translations
Verb
herd (third-person singular simple present herds, present participle herding, simple past and past participle herded)
- (intransitive) To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company.
- Sheep herd on many hills.
- (transitive) To unite or associate in a herd
- (transitive) To manage, care for or guard a herd
- (intransitive) To associate; to ally oneself with, or place oneself among, a group or company.
- I’ll herd among his friends, and seem
One of the number.
- I’ll herd among his friends, and seem
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English herde, from Old English hirde, hierde, from Proto-West Germanic *hird?, from Proto-Germanic *hirdijaz. Cognate with German Hirte, Swedish herde, Danish hyrde.
Noun
herd (plural herds)
- (now rare) Someone who keeps a group of domestic animals; a herdsman.
- 2000, Alasdair Grey, The Book of Prefaces, Bloomsbury 2002, page 38:
- Any talent which gives a good new thing to others is a miracle, but commentators have thought it extra miraculous that England's first known poet was an illiterate herd.
- 2000, Alasdair Grey, The Book of Prefaces, Bloomsbury 2002, page 38:
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
herd (third-person singular simple present herds, present participle herding, simple past and past participle herded)
- (intransitive, Scotland) To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.
- (transitive) To form or put into a herd.
- (transitive) To move or drive a herd.
Translations
See also
- Appendix:English collective nouns
- drove
- gather
- muster
- round up
- ride herd on
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
herd
- imperative of herde
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *herþ.
Noun
herd m
- hearth
Descendants
- Middle High German: hert
- German: Herd
- Luxembourgish: Häerd
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school
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: sko?ol, IPA(key): /sku?l/
- Rhymes: -u?l
Etymology 1
From Middle English scole, schole (“group of persons, multitude, host, school of fish”), from Middle Dutch scole (“multitude, troop of people, swarm of animals”), from Old Dutch *scola, *skola (“troop, multitude”), from Proto-Germanic *skul? (“crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)k?el- (“crowd, people”). Cognate with Middle Low German sch?le (“multitude, troop”), Old English scolu (“troop or band of people, host, multitude, school of fish”). Doublet of shoal. Compare Hebrew ???????????? (“*(s)c?l?–education”), Hebrew ??????????? (“*(s)k?ol–cluster”).
Alternative forms
- skull (obsolete)
Noun
school (plural schools)
- (collective) A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales.
- The divers encountered a huge school of mackerel.
- A multitude.
Synonyms
- (fish): shoal
Translations
Verb
school (third-person singular simple present schools, present participle schooling, simple past and past participle schooled)
- (intransitive) (of fish) To form into, or travel in a school.
Etymology 2
From Middle English scole, from Old English sc?l (“place of education”), from Proto-Germanic *sk?la (“school”), from Late Latin schola, scola (“learned discussion or dissertation, lecture, school”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (skholeîon), from ????? (skhol?, “spare time, leisure; conversations and the knowledge gained through them during free time; the places where these conversations took place”), from Proto-Indo-European *se??- (“to hold, have, possess”). Doublet of schola and shul. Compare Old Frisian sk?le, sch?le (“school”) (West Frisian skoalle, Saterland Frisian Skoule), Dutch school (“school”), German Low German School (“school”), Old High German scuola (“school”), Old Norse skóli (“school”).Influenced in some senses by Middle English schole (“group of persons, host, company”), from Middle Dutch scole (“multitude, troop, band”). See school1. Related also to Old High German sigi (German Sieg, “victory”), Old English si?e, sigor (“victory”).
Alternative forms
- schole (obsolete)
Noun
school (plural schools)
- (US, Canada) An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.
- (Britain) An educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education (college or university).
- (Britain) At Eton College, a period or session of teaching.
- Within a larger educational institution, an organizational unit, such as a department or institute, which is dedicated to a specific subject area.
- An art movement, a community of artists.
- The Barbizon school of painters were part of an art movement towards Realism in art, which arose in the context of the dominant Romantic Movement of the time.
- (considered collectively) The followers of a particular doctrine; a particular way of thinking or particular doctrine; a school of thought.
- 1660, Jeremy Taylor, The Worthy Communicant; or a Discourse of the Nature, Effects, and Blessings consequent to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper
- Let no man be less confident in his faith […] by reason of any difference of judgment , which is in the several schools of Christians.
- 1660, Jeremy Taylor, The Worthy Communicant; or a Discourse of the Nature, Effects, and Blessings consequent to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper
- The time during which classes are attended or in session in an educational institution.
- The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honours are held.
- The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age.
- He was a gentleman of the old school.
- 1883, Arthur Sherburne Hardy, But Yet a Woman
- His face pale but striking, though not handsome after the schools.
- An establishment offering specialized instruction, as for driving, cooking, typing, coding, etc.
Synonyms
- (institution dedicated to teaching and learning): academy, college, university
- (organizational unity within an educational institution): college, department, faculty, institute
Hyponyms
- See also Thesaurus:school
Coordinate terms
- (institution providing primary and secondary education): nursery school, kindergarten, college, polytechnic, university
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
Verb
school (third-person singular simple present schools, present participle schooling, simple past and past participle schooled)
- (transitive) To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school).
- (transitive) To defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson.
- 1998, Leigh Jones, "National bar exam methods win in ADA regulation test," The Journal Record, April 13,
- A blind law graduate who put the National Conference of Bar Examiners to the test got schooled in federal court.
- 2007, Peter David and Alvin Sargent, Spider-Man 3, Simon and Schuster, ?ISBN, pg. 216,
- "You again?" Sandman demanded. "I guess you didn't learn your lesson."
- "This time I'm gonna school you."
- 1998, Leigh Jones, "National bar exam methods win in ADA regulation test," The Journal Record, April 13,
- (transitive) To control, or compose, one's expression.
Derived terms
- schooling
Translations
Further reading
- school on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- school (fish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- school (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- cholos
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sxo?l/
- Hyphenation: school
- Rhymes: -o?l
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch schôle, from Latin schola, from Ancient Greek ????? (skhol?).
Noun
school f (plural scholen, diminutive schooltje n)
- A school, educational institution that provides education, whether combined with research or not
- A thematic educational institute within a larger one, such as in a university for a single research field.
- Any organisation providing instruction.
- A movement or stylistic trend.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: skool
- ? Northern Ndebele: isikolo
- ? N?uu: skool
- ? Sotho: sekolo
- ? Southern Ndebele: isikolo
- ? Shona: chikoro (through a Nguni intermediate)
- ? Tsonga: xikolo
- ? Venda: tshikolo
- ? Xhosa: isikolo
- ? Zulu: isikole
- ? Papiamentu: skol
- ? Sranan Tongo: skoro
Etymology 2
From Middle Dutch sch?le, from Old Dutch *skola, from Proto-Germanic *skul?, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)k?el- (“crowd, people”).
Noun
school f (plural scholen, diminutive schooltje n)
- A school, group of fish or other aquatic animals.
Derived terms
- samenscholen
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
school
- singular past indicative of schuilen
- first-person singular present indicative of scholen
- imperative of scholen
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