shepherd

1. 1.

   watch over like a shepherd, as a teacher of her pupils

   Broaderguard
2. 2.

   tend as a shepherd, as of sheep or goats

   Broadertend

Other forms of shepherd

plural

shepherds·

past tense

shepherded·

present participle

shepherding·

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 shepherd

What does shepherd mean?

shepherd means "a clergyman who watches over a group of people". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shepherd?

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

What is another word for shepherd?

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

shepherd is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 shepherd?

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