cattle

Speech parts

1. cattle - Noun

3. Cattle - Proper noun

Meaning

Quadrupeds of the Bovine family; sometimes, also, including all domestic quadrupeds, as sheep, goats, horses, mules, asses, and swine.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

kine cows oxen stock beef herd neat bovine livestock Beasts bovine animals buffalo durham brahma bullock
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Antonyms

high society wildlife wild animals predators animals in the wild animals living in an undomesticated state
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Hypernyms

bovine

Hyponyms

welsh devon bullock bull cow grade

Related terms

cattle up

Phrases with the word

all hat and no cattle cattle breeder cattle fair cattle farmer cattle rustler cattle fly

Anagrams

catlet cattel tectal

Examples

I deny that I ever said actors are cattle. What I said was, "Actors should be treated like cattle." Alfred Hitchcock

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance. William O. Douglas

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle. Heraclitus

All hat and no cattle. English Proverb

Our neighbour's crop is always more fruitful and his cattle produce more milk than our own. Latin Proverb

He who has cattle on the hill will not sleep easy. Irish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

cattishness Cattistock cattitude cattle auction cattle barn cattle beast