The difference between Herd and Zeal

When used as nouns, herd means a number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper, whereas zeal means the fervour or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance.


Herd is also verb with the meaning: to unite or associate in a herd.

check bellow for the other definitions of Herd and Zeal

  1. Herd as a noun:

    A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper.

  2. Herd as a noun:

    Any collection of animals gathered or travelling in a company.

  3. Herd as a noun (now, usually, pejorative):

    A crowd, a mass of people; now usually pejorative: a rabble.

  1. Herd as a verb (intransitive):

    To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company.

    Examples:

    "Sheep herd on many hills."

  2. Herd as a verb (transitive):

    To unite or associate in a herd

    Examples:

    "He is employed to herd the goats."

  3. Herd as a verb (intransitive):

    To associate; to ally oneself with, or place oneself among, a group or company.

    Examples:

    "rfdate ''I’ll herd among his friends, and seem<br/>One of the number.'' Addison."

  1. Herd as a noun (now, rare):

    Someone who keeps a group of domestic animals; a herdsman.

  1. Herd as a verb (intransitive, Scotland):

    To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.

  2. Herd as a verb (transitive):

    To form or put into a herd.

    Examples:

    "I heard the herd of cattle being herded home from a long way away."

  1. Zeal as a noun:

    The fervour or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance; diligent enthusiasm; powerful interest.

  2. Zeal as a noun (obsolete):

    A zealot.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Ben Jonson"

  3. Zeal as a noun:

    The collective noun for a group of zebras.

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