Convocation vs Herd - What's the difference?
convocation | herd | Related terms |
The act of calling or assembling by summons.
An assembly or meeting.
An assembly of the clergy, by their representatives, to consult on ecclesiastical affairs.
An academical assembly, in which the business of the university is transacted.
A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper.
* 1768, ,
Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company.
* 2007, J. Michael Fay, Ivory Wars: Last Stand in Zakouma , National Geographic (March 2007), 47,
A crowd, a mass of people; now usually pejorative: a rabble.
* Dryden
* Coleridge
To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company.
To associate; to ally one's self with, or place one's self among, a group or company.
Someone who keeps a group of domestic animals; a herdsman.
* 2000 , Alasdair Grey, The Book of Prefaces , Bloomsbury 2002, p. 38:
(Scotland) To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.
To form or put into a herd.
Convocation is a related term of herd.
As nouns the difference between convocation and herd
is that convocation is the act of calling or assembling by summons while herd is stove, cooker.convocation
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Noun
(en noun)Coordinate terms
* (academic assembly) (l)herd
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) herde, heerde, heorde, from (etyl) hierd, .Noun
(en noun)- The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea.
- Zakouma is the last place on Earth where you can see more than a thousand elephants on the move in a single, compact herd .
- But far more numerous was the herd of such / Who think too little and who talk too much.
- You can never interest the common herd in the abstract question.
Verb
(en verb)- Sheep herd on many hills.
- (rfdate) I’ll herd among his friends, and seem One of the number. Addison.
Etymology 2
(etyl) hirde, (hierde), from (etyl) . Cognate with German Hirte, Swedish herde, Danish hyrde.Noun
(en noun)- 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 .
Derived terms
* bearherd * cowherd * goatherd * gooseherd * hogherd * horseherd * neatherd * oxherd * swanherd * swineherd * vaxherdVerb
(en verb)- I heard the herd of cattle being herded home from a long way away.