Herd
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| small | small herd | small number |
| massive | massive herd | massive number |
| large | large herd | large number |
| big | big herd | big number |
| Other adjectives: enormous, huge, little, new, vast, larger, smaller, sizable. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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A number of sketches feature people inexplicably behaving like animals, such as a herd of jockeys being stalked by The Artist Formerly Known As Prince.
Source: Series / Big Train -
Number Two: Rowdy (although Favor will sometimes leave the herd with Pete instead).
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There's also a classic math problem involving hydra herds in which every blow which fails to kill a hydra spawns a number of duplicates of the damaged hydra equal to the number of blows which the entire herd has received.
Source: Hydra Problem
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Number and Herd. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/herd/number
Herd & Number. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/herd/number>.
Number or Herd. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/herd/number.
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