shepherd dog

Questions about shepherd dog

What does shepherd dog mean?

shepherd dog means "any of various usually long-haired breeds of dog reared to herd and guard sheep".

What is another word for shepherd dog?

Close synonyms include sheepdog, sheep dog. 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 dog a common word?

shepherd dog 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.