goatherd
2
7.6
- noun
- /ˈɡoʊtˌhɜrd/
:
cabrero
- The goatherd watched over the goats while they grazed on the hillside.
- goatherd and his flock
- little goatherd
- young goatherd
Examples
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"It was as if a goatherd had driven his flock through our midst," said one of Descartes's followers.
Fiction book (1990) -
Skyler was a goatherd.
Fiction book (1999) -
In the days of her youth, the village had a goatherd, a shepherd, and a cowherd.
Fiction book (1996) -
The only people visible in most places are shepherds and goatherds at work.
Academic text (1998) -
To which side of the conflict did that goatherd, the bells of his flock clanging up toward us from over the rise, belong?
Academic text (2015) -
The goatherd gave no outward indication that the nearness of Cintalapa affected his life in any way.
Fiction book (1999) -
Most people here live in small, autonomous villages tucked into high mountain valleys and work dawn to dusk just to scratch out a meager living as subsistence farmers, shepherds, or goatherds.
Academic text (2011) -
The goatherd led his flock to the lush green pasture every morning.
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As a goatherd, she learned to recognize each goat by name and personality.
Synonyms
15
3.7
A person who looks after and moves animals like sheep or cattle
4
3.2
A person who looks after and moves goats as a job
1
5.0
A person who looks after and moves a group of animals like cows or sheep
A person who looks after young goats
A person who looks after a group of animals like cows or sheep
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Goatherd comes from the words goat and herd, and herd means 'a group of animals' or 'to guide animals'. So, like a shepherd cares for sheep, a goatherd is the person who looks after goats.