shepherd
a person who herds, tends, and guards sheep.
a person who protects, guides, or watches over a person or group of people.
a member of the clergy.
the Shepherd, Jesus Christ.
to tend or guard as a shepherd: to shepherd the flock.
to watch over carefully.
Origin of shepherd
1Other words for shepherd
Other words from shepherd
- shep·herd·less, adjective
- shep·herd·like, adjective
- un·der·shep·herd, noun
- un·shep·herd·ed, adjective
- un·shep·herd·ing, adjective
Other definitions for Shepherd (2 of 2)
a male given name.
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How to use shepherd in a sentence
Hu, shepherd and Kathy Park Price, a nonpartisan election observer, quickly posted videos of the argument to Twitter.
Pistols, a Hearse and Trucks Playing Chicken: Why Some Voters Felt Harassed and Intimidated at the Polls | by Adriana Gallardo, Maryam Jameel and Ryan McCarthy | December 4, 2020 | ProPublicaAlong the way, he helped champion and shepherd works by authors such as Billy Collins, Alice Munro and George Saunders.
Daniel Menaker, author and celebrated editor at the New Yorker and Random House, dies at 79 | Harrison Smith | October 29, 2020 | Washington Post“That repeater picks up the quality that’s being given to it—if it’s picking up bad-quality Wi-Fi, all it can give out is bad-quality Wi-Fi,” explains Cham Clayton, owner of CBG Multimedia in shepherd, Michigan.
Ethernet and a mesh network will permanently solve your WiFi issues | Whitson Gordon | October 16, 2020 | Popular-ScienceGuide RNAs shepherd the DNA-cutting enzyme Cas9 to the virus, where the enzyme chops and eliminates the threat.
Gene-editing tool CRISPR wins the chemistry Nobel | Tina Hesman Saey | October 7, 2020 | Science NewsDiscovering new, exotic quark arrangements “tells us something about the types of patterns of quarks that the strong interaction generates, which tells us something about the strong interaction,” shepherd says.
This is the first known particle with four of the same kind of quark | Maria Temming | July 7, 2020 | Science News
Christie has a lot riding on fulfilling his promise of shepherding Atlantic City into a third boom era.
I Watched a Casino Kill Itself: The Awful Last Nights of Atlantic City’s Taj Mahal | Olivia Nuzzi | December 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut the Robinsons have some experience with shepherding a child towards a potential scholarship.
Native American Basketball Team in Wyoming Have Hoop Dreams Of Their Own | Robert Silverman | August 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFrom the get-go, her admiration for the format she was shepherding back to network TV was evident.
Mexico City police shepherding the medical teams described the operation as “a precision maneuver.”
A Woman in Mexico Receives a New Heart—After Medics Dropped It | Mac Margolis | January 25, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTBut from 2007 onward, shepherding the International Monetary Fund through the worst crisis in living memory was his renaissance.
In a very few days George was about again and on his pony, and he and Robinson and Carlo went a shepherding.
It Is Never Too Late to Mend | Charles ReadeAnd jealously shepherding the other out of the house, he withdrew the key when both had passed the threshold.
The Long Night | Stanley WeymanI wish girls were able to discriminate between the shepherding qualities in men and the huntsman's qualities.
Southern Hearts | Florence Hull WinterburnAfter twenty-five years bearing, and forbearing, and childbearing, you will smile at your gentle-shepherding of to-day.
I, Thou, and the Other One | Amelia Edith Huddleston BarrThis was the abode of a huge monster who was then away from home shepherding his flocks.
The Odyssey | Homer
British Dictionary definitions for shepherd (1 of 2)
/ (ˈʃɛpəd) /
a person employed to tend sheep: Female equivalent: shepherdess Related adjectives: bucolic, pastoral
a person, such as a clergyman, who watches over or guides a group of people
to guide or watch over in the manner of a shepherd
Australian rules football to prevent opponents from tackling (a member of one's own team) by blocking their path
Origin of shepherd
1British Dictionary definitions for Shepherd (2 of 2)
astronomy a small moon of (e.g.) Saturn orbiting close to the rings and partly responsible for ring stability
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