Hearken vs Herd - What's the difference?
hearken | herd |
To listen; to attend or give heed to what is uttered; to hear with attention, obedience, or compliance.
* Dryden
* Bible, Deuteronomy
(poetic) To hear by listening.
* Spenser
To hear with attention; to regard.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To enquire; to seek information.
* Shakespeare
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.
As a verb hearken
is to listen; to attend or give heed to what is uttered; to hear with attention, obedience, or compliance.As a noun herd is
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Alternative forms
* harkenVerb
(en verb)- The Furies hearken , and their snakes uncurl.
- Hearken , O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you.
- [She] hearkened now and then / Some little whispering and soft groaning sound.
- The King of Naples hearkens my brother's suit.
- Hearken after their offense.
Quotations
* , Genesis 3:17 *: And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; * 1833 : , Œnone *: Dear mother Ida, harken ere I die. * 1809-49 : The Tell-Tale Heart, *: How then am I mad? Hearken ! and observe how healthily, how calmly, I can tell you the whole story.References
*herd
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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.