cattle

Definition

  • noun: cows, bulls, or steers that are kept on a farm or ranch for meat or milk
  • noun plural: domesticated quadrupeds held as property or raised for use
  • often used before another noun
  • synonyms: bos, black cattle, cattle run

Examples

  • The people in the crowd were treated like 'cattle' as they tried to leave the stadium.

  • His family used to raise 'cattle'.

  • My uncle has a 'cattle' ranch.

Movie quotes

  • (..) a kind of gluttony, and a misuse of something sacred, which is given to us so that we may choose the one person with whom to fulfill our humanness. Otherwise, we might as well be cattle. Ah! An idealist! But she will be nobody's wife. She'll be ruined. I tried to save her. She chose ruin. (..)
    2012 Anna Karenina