name, noun ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A man involved in a free-range cattle business, in either ownership or hired hand roles.
2. 2
   a male hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback wordnet
3. 3
   A man involved in a dairy cattle or feedlot cattle business.

   "One cousin was rich and had a beautiful estate; the other was poor and was overseer and cowman for his cousin."

Proper Noun

1. 1
   A surname.

Synonyms

All synonyms

cattlemancowboycowhandcowherdbreakerbreeder

Example

More examples

"One cousin was rich and had a beautiful estate; the other was poor and was overseer and cowman for his cousin."

Etymology

From cow + -man.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.