cowherd

Other forms of cowherd

plural

cowherds·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cowherd

What does cowherd mean?

cowherd means "a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback".

How many syllables are in cowherd?

cowherd has 2 syllables: co-wherd. The stress falls on "co". In IPA it is /ˈkaʊˌhɝd/.

What is another word for cowherd?

Close synonyms include cowboy, cowpuncher, puncher, cowman, cattleman. 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 cowherd a common word?

cowherd is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with cowherd?

3 words rhyme with cowherd. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.