sheepman

Other forms of sheepman

plural

sheepmans·

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 sheepman

What does sheepman mean?

sheepman means "a man who raises (or tends) sheep". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sheepman?

sheepman has 2 syllables: sheep-man. The stress falls on "sheep".

What is another word for sheepman?

Close synonyms include sheepherder, shepherd. 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 sheepman a common word?

sheepman is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.