dairy cattle

Questions about dairy cattle

What does dairy cattle mean?

dairy cattle means "cattle that are reared for their milk".

What is another word for dairy cattle?

Close synonyms include dairy cow, milch cow, milk cow, milcher, milker. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dairy cattle a common word?

dairy cattle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.