shepherdess
3
6.5
- noun
- /ˈʃɛpərdɛs/
:
pastora
- Wearing a straw hat, the shepherdess led the sheep to the barn for the night.
Examples
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The event is celebrated in a pastoral setting filled with sun and the adoration of Himeneo by shepherds and shepherdesses.
Academic text (2001) -
The walls are painted with pastoral idyls: shepherdesses in swings, shepherds playing lutes.
Fiction book (1990) -
And here are the children in their shepherdess outfits.
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She wants to be a shepherdess and take to to the hills.
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Our patron, Beryl of Sussex, was a simple shepherdess.
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A shepherdess in Ningxia prepares to give newborn lambs a winter feed of dried corn.
Academic text (2003) -
The shakers were brightly painted antique porcelain figures of a rosy-cheeked shepherd and shepherdess, each holding a crook.
Fiction book (1997) -
A hundred years before Bushnell gave his speech, New England girls were embroidering frolicking lambs and winsome shepherdesses on needlework pictures and samplers.
Academic text (2002) -
Marcela, a wealthy orphan, has chosen to postpone marriage, the unavoidable destiny of countless women characters throughout the ages, and decides to become a shepherdess and tend to her flock free of any commitment to anyone.
Academic text (2003) -
The shepherdess watched over her flock as they grazed in the meadow.
Synonyms
93
1.9
A person who looks after and guides sheep on open land
15
3.7
A person who looks after and moves animals like sheep or cattle
3
5.6
A person who looks after sheep on open land
1
7.4
A person who raises and looks after grazing animals like cattle or sheep
A woman who takes care of sheep
A woman who looks after sheep in fields
A woman who looks after a group of farm animals like sheep or cattle
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Shepherdess comes from old English parts sheep and herd, so a shepherd was originally a 'sheep herder'. The ending -ess marks a woman, as in waitress, so a shepherdess is a woman who looks after sheep.