shepard

1. 1.

   United States author of surrealistic allegorical plays (born in 1943)

   SynonymsSam Shepard

   Broaderdramatist
2. 2.

   astronaut who made the first United States' suborbital rocket-powered flight in 1961 (1923-1998)

   SynonymsAlan ShepardAlan Bartlett Shepard Jr.

   Broaderastronaut

Other forms of shepard

plural

shepards·

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 shepard

What does shepard mean?

shepard means "United States author of surrealistic allegorical plays (born in 1943)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shepard?

shepard has 2 syllables: shep-ard. The stress falls on "shep". In IPA it is /ˈʃɛpɚd/.

What is another word for shepard?

Close synonyms include Sam Shepard, Alan Shepard, Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr.. 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 shepard a common word?

shepard is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 shepard?

1 word rhymes with shepard. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.