shepherd — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A person who tends sheep, especially a grazing flock.

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   • Countable

   Synonyms

   pastor

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   It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.

2. A person who tends sheep, especially a grazing flock. A male sheep tender

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   • Countable

3. Someone who watches over, looks after, or guides somebody.

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   • Countable
   • Figurative

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   The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

4. Someone who watches over, looks after, or guides somebody. A male watcher/guardian/guider/leader

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   • Countable
   • Figurative

5. The pastor of a church; one who guides others in religion.

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   • Countable
   • Figurative

6. The pastor of a church; one who guides others in religion. A male pastor

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   • Countable
   • Figurative

7. A swain; a rustic male lover.

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   • Countable
   • Poetic

8. A German Shepherd.

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   • Countable

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   The dirt floor, low ceiling and unfinished stone walls were barely illuminated by candles and a dim string of green decorative lights. A nervous shepherd mix barked at me as a woman tried to calm it. When my eyes adjusted, I saw people in corners.

Verb

1. To watch over; to guide.

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   • Transitive

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   For me has Pain, the sentinel, / Been vigilant / To pace my plot and dwell / Within my tent; / Oft in the night with small alarms / Has stirred me out of rest, / Alert, oppressed, / Till shepherded within thine arms / And on thy breast, / O loving Lady, in the curse of Pain / I have been blest— / […]

   Each entry in this volume was assigned to a different preeminent scholar who was responsible for shepherding that specific entry, and that specific entry alone, into being.

2. To obstruct an opponent from getting to the ball, either when a teammate has it or is going for it, or if the ball is about to bounce through the goal or out of bounds.

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   • Transitive

Noun

1. a clergyman who watches over a group of people

   Broader terms

   reverend

2. a herder of sheep (on an open range); someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock

   Synonyms

   sheepherder

   Broader terms

   herderdrover

Verb

1. watch over like a shepherd, as a teacher of their pupils

   Broader terms

   guardward

2. tend as a shepherd, as of sheep or goats

   Broader terms

   tend