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Pronunciation: [hˈɜːdzmən] (IPA)

A herdsman is a person who oversees and manages a group of domestic animals, mainly cattle, sheep, or goats. However, there are several synonyms for the word herdsman that can be used interchangeably. A shepherd is a person who tends to sheep, while a cowherd is someone responsible for managing cows. A drover is a person who guides animals over long distances to markets or pastures. A grazier is responsible for managing grasslands and the livestock grazing on them. Additionally, a stockman is someone who is responsible for the caring of livestock in general. These synonyms can be used depending on the type of animal being managed and the specific job responsibilities of the person in charge.
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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

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I hear, when Mr. Ryan and Mr. Lynch go to fairs, that they sleep with their herdsman, and in Mayo there is a bachelor's house where they have fine times-whiskey-drinking and dancing until three o'clock in the morning.
"Muslin"
George Moore
The fox and the wolf, and even the coyote, can readily distinguish whether a herd of sheep or cattle is guarded by three or four dogs, and whether there is one herdsman or two.
"The Human Side of Animals"
Royal Dixon
He begged, he implored that the herdsman should leave his folds, the lawyer his office, and come into camp to win the victory.
"The Struggle for Missouri"
John McElroy

Famous quotes with Herdsman

  • The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
    William Butler Yeats
  • The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
    William Butler Yeats
  • The second doctrine of the Perennial Philosophy — that it is possible to know the Divine Ground by a direct intuition higher than discursive reasoning — is to be found in all the great religions of the world. A philosopher who is content merely to know about the ultimate Reality — theoretically and by hearsay — is compared by Buddha to a herdsman of other men’s cows. Mohammed uses an even homelier barnyard metaphor. For him the philosopher who has not realized his metaphysics is just an ass bearing a load of books. Christian, Hindu, Taoist teachers wrote no less emphatically about the absurd pretensions of mere learning and analytic reasoning.
    Aldous Huxley
  • The nomadic Semite... roves as a herdsman, partaking of Allah's hospitality.
    Cyrus H. Gordon
  • Midnight is a wonderful thing in a vast city—and midnight was upon Vienna. The shops were closed, the windows darkened, and the streets deserted—strange that where so much of life was gathered together there could be such deep repose; yet nothing equals the stillness of a great town at night. Perhaps it is the contrast afforded by memory that makes this appear yet more profound. In the lone valley, and in the green forest, there is quiet even at noon—quiet, at least, broken by sounds belonging alike to day and night. The singing of the bee and the bird, or the voice of the herdsman carolling some old song of the hills—these may be hushed; but there is still the rustle of the leaves, the wind murmuring in the long grass, and the low perpetual whisper of the pine. But in the town—the brick and mortar have no voices of their own. Nature is silent—her soft, sweet harmonies are hushed in the great human tumult—man, and man only, is heard. Through many hours of the twenty-four, the ocean of existence rolls on with a sound like thunder—a thousand voices speak at once. The wheels pass and re-pass over the stones—music, laughter, anger, the words of courtesy and of business, mingle together—the history of a day is the history of all time. The annals of life but repeat themselves.
    Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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