Cattle

Quick meaning: Cattle is a noun meaning Domesticated animal of the species Bos taurus (cows, bulls, steers, oxen etc), and other hoofed mammals of the genus Bos.

Meaning

Domesticated animal of the species Bos taurus (cows, bulls, steers, oxen etc), and other hoofed mammals of the genus Bos.

More Meanings

1. Certain other livestock, such as sheep, pigs or goats. Also rarely applied to horses.
2. (derogatory, figuratively) People who resemble domesticated bovine animals in behavior or destiny.
3. (uncountable, rare) Used in restricted contexts to refer to the meat derived from cattle.
4. (transitive, Cockney rhyming slang) Ellipsis of cattle truck (“to fuck: to break, destroy”).
5. (obsolete, English law, sometimes countable, plural cattles) chattel

Example Sentences

goods and cattle

Many cattle were suffering from a disease called BSE.

"I always knew it, but I always denied it, because I'm one of them, and I'm like them." ¶"We're just cattle," the Prison Governor said, relieved now.

Mangcorn is utilized partly as human food, and partly as fodder for cattle, especially for fattening swine, for which purpose it is considered peculiarly adapted.

Word Forms

• cattles
• cattling
• cattled

Synonyms for cattle

Depending on context, synonyms include beef, bovine, cattlebeast, cattlehead, neat, kine.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include kine, cow, bovine, livestock, bull, veal.

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