The German Shepherd was limping down the street.
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Shepherd
//ˈʃɛpəd//
Synonyms for "shepherd" (181 found)
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Closest matches (37)
Strong matches (54)
Related words (90)
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Noun(3 words)
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More general
6 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
20 entriesShowing 16 of 20 words.
capable of
4 entriescoordinate
9 entriesderived
44 entriesShowing 16 of 44 words.
has context
1 entriesis a
9 entriesmanner of
2 entriesrelated to
56 entriesShowing 16 of 56 words.
similar
1 entriesTranslations
265 translations across 119 languages.
Afrikaans
2 entries- herder noun (someone who watches over or guides)
- skaapwagter noun (a person who tends sheep)
Aghwan
1 entries- 𐔰𐕚𐔴𐕔 noun (a person who tends sheep)
Albanian
2 entries- bari noun (a person who tends sheep)
- çoban noun (a person who tends sheep)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ποιμήν noun (a person who tends sheep)
Ao
1 entries- sannüker (Chungli) noun (a person who tends sheep)
Arabic
4 entries- راعي noun (a person who tends sheep)
- رَاعٍ noun (a person who tends sheep)
- رَاعٍ noun (someone who watches over or guides)
- سارح noun (a person who tends sheep)
Armenian
2 entries- հովիվ noun (a person who tends sheep)
- չոբան noun (a person who tends sheep)
Aromanian
2 entries- picurar noun (a person who tends sheep)
- uiar noun (a person who tends sheep)
Assamese
1 entries- ভেৰাৰখীয়া noun (a person who tends sheep)
Asturian
2 entries- oveyeru noun (a person who tends sheep)
- pastor noun (a person who tends sheep)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- çoban noun (a person who tends sheep)
Bakhtiari
1 entries- شوں noun (a person who tends sheep)
Bashkir
1 entries- көтөүсе noun (a person who tends sheep)
Basque
1 entries- artzain noun (a person who tends sheep)
Belarusian
2 entries- па́стыр noun (a person who tends sheep)
- пасту́х noun (a person who tends sheep)
Breton
1 entries- bugul noun (a person who tends sheep)
Bulgarian
4 entries- пасти́р noun (a person who tends sheep)
- грижа се за verb (watch over; guide)
- нагледам verb (watch over; guide)
- наглеждам verb (watch over; guide)
Burmese
1 entries- သိုးထိန်း noun (a person who tends sheep)
Catalan
3 entries- Pastor name (equivalent surnames)
- pastor noun (a person who tends sheep)
- pastor noun (someone who watches over or guides)
Central Kurdish
2 entries- شوان noun (a person who tends sheep)
- شوان noun (someone who watches over or guides)
Chichewa
1 entries- mbusa noun (a person who tends sheep)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 牧人 noun (a person who tends sheep)
- 牧民 noun (a person who tends sheep)
- 牧羊人 noun (a person who tends sheep)
- 羊倌 noun (a person who tends sheep)
Coptic
1 entries- ⲙⲁⲛⲉⲥⲟⲟⲩ noun (a person who tends sheep)
Cornish
1 entries- bugel noun (a person who tends sheep)
Czech
2 entries- pastýř noun (a person who tends sheep)
- pasák noun (a person who tends sheep)
Danish
2 entries- fårehyrde noun (a person who tends sheep)
- hyrde noun (someone who watches over or guides)
Dutch
4 entries- Scheepers name (equivalent surnames)
- Scheper name (equivalent surnames)
- Schepers name (equivalent surnames)
- herder noun (a person who tends sheep)
Esperanto
3 entries- paŝtisto noun (a person who tends sheep)
- ŝafistino noun (a person who tends sheep)
- ŝafisto noun (a person who tends sheep)
Estonian
2 entries- karjus noun (a person who tends sheep)
- lambur noun (a person who tends sheep)
Finnish
4 entries- lammaspaimen noun (a person who tends sheep)
- paimen noun (someone who watches over or guides)
- kaitsea verb (watch over; guide)
- paimentaa verb (watch over; guide)
French
4 entries- Pasteur name (equivalent surnames)
- berger noun (a person who tends sheep)
- bergère noun (a person who tends sheep)
- pasteur noun (a person who tends sheep)
Friulian
3 entries- fedâr noun (a person who tends sheep)
- pastôr noun (a person who tends sheep)
- piorâr noun (a person who tends sheep)
Galician
4 entries- ovelleiro noun (a person who tends sheep)
- pastor noun (a person who tends sheep)
- pegureiro noun (a person who tends sheep)
- alindar verb (watch over; guide)
Georgian
3 entries- მეცხვარე noun (a person who tends sheep)
- მწყემსი noun (a person who tends sheep)
- ჩობანი noun (a person who tends sheep)
German
4 entries- Schäfer name (equivalent surnames)
- Hirt noun (someone who watches over or guides)
- Hirt(e) noun (a person who tends sheep)
- Hirte noun (someone who watches over or guides)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌳𐌴𐌹𐍃 noun (a person who tends sheep)
Greek
2 entries- βοσκός noun (a person who tends sheep)
- τσοπάνης noun (a person who tends sheep)
Hebrew
2 entries- רוֹעֶה noun (a person who tends sheep)
- רוֹעֶה noun (someone who watches over or guides)
Hindi
2 entries- गड़ेरिया noun (a person who tends sheep)
- चूपान noun (a person who tends sheep)
Hungarian
2 entries- juhász noun (a person who tends sheep)
- pásztor noun (a person who tends sheep)
Hunsrik
2 entries- Schefer noun (a person who tends sheep)
- Schefrin noun (a person who tends sheep)
Icelandic
4 entries- fjárhirðir noun (a person who tends sheep)
- hirðir noun (a person who tends sheep)
- smalamaður noun (a person who tends sheep)
- smali noun (a person who tends sheep)
Irish
4 entries- aoire noun (a person who tends sheep)
- buachaill caorach noun (a person who tends sheep)
- tréadaí noun (a person who tends sheep)
- aoirigh verb (watch over; guide)
Italian
4 entries- Pastore name (equivalent surnames)
- pastore noun (a person who tends sheep)
- pastore noun (someone who watches over or guides)
- pecoraio noun (a person who tends sheep)
Japanese
2 entries- 牧人 noun (a person who tends sheep)
- 羊飼い noun (a person who tends sheep)
Kazakh
2 entries- малшы noun (a person who tends sheep)
- қойшы noun (a person who tends sheep)
Khmer
2 entries- មេសបាល noun (a person who tends sheep)
- មេសបាលី noun (a person who tends sheep)
Kikuyu
1 entries- mũrĩithi noun (a person who tends sheep)
Korean
2 entries- 목자 noun (a person who tends sheep)
- 양치기 noun (a person who tends sheep)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- малчы noun (a person who tends sheep)
Lao
1 entries- ຄົນລ້ຽງແກະ noun (a person who tends sheep)
Latin
3 entries- pastor noun (a person who tends sheep)
- pecorarius noun (a person who tends sheep)
- ūpiliō noun (a person who tends sheep)
Latvian
2 entries- gans noun (a person who tends sheep)
- ganīt verb (watch over; guide)
Lezgi
1 entries- чубан noun (a person who tends sheep)
Ligurian
1 entries- pastô noun (a person who tends sheep)
Lithuanian
1 entries- piemuo noun (a person who tends sheep)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Schéifer noun (a person who tends sheep)
Macedonian
4 entries- овчар noun (a person who tends sheep)
- пастир noun (a person who tends sheep)
- пастир noun (someone who watches over or guides)
- чобан noun (a person who tends sheep)
Malagasy
1 entries- mpiandry noun (a person who tends sheep)
Malay
2 entries- gembala noun (a person who tends sheep)
- penggembala noun (a person who tends sheep)
Maltese
3 entries- mexxej noun (someone who watches over or guides)
- ragħaj noun (a person who tends sheep)
- ragħaj noun (someone who watches over or guides)
Manx
1 entries- bochil noun (a person who tends sheep)
Mazanderani
3 entries- چپون noun (a person who tends sheep)
- کرد noun (a person who tends sheep)
- گسن کرد noun (a person who tends sheep)
Middle English
2 entries- schepherde noun (a person who tends sheep)
- schepherde noun (someone who watches over or guides)
Middle Irish
1 entries- áegaire noun (a person who tends sheep)
Mongolian
2 entries- хоньчин noun (a person who tends sheep)
- ᠬᠣᠨᠢᠴᠢᠨ noun (a person who tends sheep)
Mycenaean Greek
1 entries- 𐀡𐀕 noun (a person who tends sheep)
Navajo
1 entries- naʼniłkaadí noun (a person who tends sheep)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- şivan noun (a person who tends sheep)
- şivan noun (someone who watches over or guides)
Northern Sami
1 entries- geahčči noun (a person who tends sheep)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- gjeter noun (a person who tends sheep)
- hyrde noun (a person who tends sheep)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- gjetar noun (a person who tends sheep)
- hjuring noun (a person who tends sheep)
Occitan
2 entries- oelhièr noun (a person who tends sheep)
- pastre noun (a person who tends sheep)
Old English
2 entries- hierde noun (someone who watches over or guides)
- sċēaphierde noun (a person who tends sheep)
Old Irish
1 entries- oegaire noun (a person who tends sheep)
Old Occitan
1 entries- pastor noun (a person who tends sheep)
Ossetian
1 entries- фиййау noun (a person who tends sheep)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- چوبان noun (a person who tends sheep)
Pashto
1 entries- شپون noun (a person who tends sheep)
Persian
4 entries- راهنما noun (someone who watches over or guides)
- شبان noun (a person who tends sheep)
- شوان noun (a person who tends sheep)
- نگهبان noun (someone who watches over or guides)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Hoad noun (a person who tends sheep)
Polabian
1 entries- postarnĕk noun (a person who tends sheep)
Polish
4 entries- baraniarz noun (a person who tends sheep)
- owczarz noun (a person who tends sheep)
- pasterz noun (a person who tends sheep)
- pastuch noun (a person who tends sheep)
Portuguese
4 entries- ovelheiro noun (a person who tends sheep)
- pastor noun (a person who tends sheep)
- pastor noun (someone who watches over or guides)
- pegureiro noun (a person who tends sheep)
Romanian
4 entries- cioban noun (a person who tends sheep)
- oier noun (a person who tends sheep)
- păcurar noun (a person who tends sheep)
- păstor noun (a person who tends sheep)
Russian
4 entries- овча́р noun (a person who tends sheep)
- па́стырь noun (someone who watches over or guides)
- пасту́х noun (a person who tends sheep)
- пасту́шка noun (a person who tends sheep)
Sanskrit
1 entries- अविपाल noun (a person who tends sheep)
Sardinian
4 entries- berbecarju noun (a person who tends sheep)
- berbecàlgiu noun (a person who tends sheep)
- berbegarzu noun (a person who tends sheep)
- pastori noun (a person who tends sheep)
Scots
2 entries- shepherd noun (a person who tends sheep)
- shepherd noun (someone who watches over or guides)
Scottish Gaelic
3 entries- aoghaire noun (a person who tends sheep)
- buachaill-chaorach noun (a person who tends sheep)
- cìobair noun (a person who tends sheep)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- pàstīr noun (a person who tends sheep)
- òvčār noun (a person who tends sheep)
- čòban noun (a person who tends sheep)
- о̀вча̄р noun (a person who tends sheep)
Sicilian
2 entries- pasturi noun (a person who tends sheep)
- picuraru noun (a person who tends sheep)
Slovak
1 entries- pastier noun (a person who tends sheep)
Slovene
1 entries- pastir noun (a person who tends sheep)
Southern Altai
4 entries- койчы noun (a person who tends sheep)
- кӱдӱчи noun (a person who tends sheep)
- малчы noun (a person who tends sheep)
- чабан noun (a person who tends sheep)
Spanish
3 entries- ovejero noun (a person who tends sheep)
- pastor noun (a person who tends sheep)
- pastorear verb (watch over; guide)
Sumerian
1 entries- 𒉺𒇻 noun (a person who tends sheep)
Swahili
1 entries- mchungaji noun (a person who tends sheep)
Swedish
2 entries- fåraherde noun (a person who tends sheep)
- herde noun (someone who watches over or guides)
Tabasaran
1 entries- габан noun (a person who tends sheep)
Tajik
1 entries- чӯпон noun (a person who tends sheep)
Tarifit
1 entries- arinti noun (a person who tends sheep)
Tatar
1 entries- көтүче noun (a person who tends sheep)
Thai
2 entries- คนเลี้ยง noun (a person who tends sheep)
- เมษบาล noun (a person who tends sheep)
Turkish
1 entries- çoban noun (a person who tends sheep)
Turkmen
1 entries- çopan noun (a person who tends sheep)
Tuvan
1 entries- хойжу noun (a person who tends sheep)
Ugaritic
1 entries- 𐎗𐎓𐎊 noun (a person who tends sheep)
Ukrainian
2 entries- па́стир noun (a person who tends sheep)
- пасту́х noun (a person who tends sheep)
Urdu
1 entries- چوپان noun (a person who tends sheep)
Uyghur
1 entries- چۇپان noun (a person who tends sheep)
Uzbek
1 entries- cho'pon noun (a person who tends sheep)
Venetan
2 entries- pastor noun (a person who tends sheep)
- piegoràro noun (a person who tends sheep)
Vietnamese
1 entries- người chăn cừu noun (a person who tends sheep)
Volapük
4 entries- galedanahipul noun (a person who tends sheep)
- galedanajipul noun (a person who tends sheep)
- galedanapul noun (a person who tends sheep)
- jipigaledan noun (a person who tends sheep)
Walloon
2 entries- biedjresse noun (a person who tends sheep)
- bierdjî noun (a person who tends sheep)
Welsh
2 entries- bugail noun (a person who tends sheep)
- bugail noun (someone who watches over or guides)
Yiddish
2 entries- פּאַסטושקע noun (a person who tends sheep)
- פּאַסטעך noun (a person who tends sheep)
Zazaki
2 entries- şıwane (diq) noun (a person who tends sheep)
- şıwani noun (a person who tends sheep)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
The shepherd, even when he become a gentleman, smells of the lamb.
Source: tatoeba (63882)
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
Source: tatoeba (390150)
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
Source: tatoeba (552065)
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