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单词 cowherd
释义

cowherd

noun

cow·​herd ˈkau̇-ˌhərd How to pronounce cowherd (audio)
: one who tends cows

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Around us, the valley slopes seem to touch the sky, covered in the Alpine forests where Hans Binder, the family patriarch and Natalie’s grandfather, had worked as a cowherd and logger to earn the money to buy the family sawmill. National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2020 All sides are discovering that federal lands, run well, are neither a fiefdom of Washington nor a bulwark against wrongheaded cowherds. Mark Sappenfield, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 May 2017

Word History

First Known Use

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

cowherd

noun

cow·​herd ˈkau̇-ˌhərd How to pronounce cowherd (audio)
: a person who tends cows

cowherd

noun

as in herdsman

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • herdsman
  • cowman
  • herder
  • cowhand
  • cowboy
  • cowpuncher
  • shepherdess
  • cowpoke
  • vaquero
  • cowgirl
  • goatherd
  • gaucho
  • buckaroo
  • shepherd
  • sheepherder
  • swineherd
  • buckeroo
  • ranchero
  • drover
  • wrangler
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