name
Meaning 1
A surname originating as an occupation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
cowherd
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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noun
Meaning 2
One who herds cattle; a cowboy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cowherder, cowboy
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cowboy, cowpuncher, puncher, cowman, cattleman, cowpoke, cowhand
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: ranch hand
Narrower terms: vaquero, buckaroo, buckeroo, cowgirl, gaucho, horse wrangler, wrangler, roper
History
Etymology
From cowherd.
From Middle English couherde, from Old English cūhierde, equivalent to cow + herd (“herder”). Doublet of Coward (the surname). Cognate with German Kuhhirte (“cowherd”). Compare shepherd, goatherd, swineherd, etc.
Across languages
Translations
65 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Assamese: গৰখীয়া (gorokhia) — a person who herds cattle
- Assamese: গোৱাল (güal) — a person who herds cattle
- Basque: unai — a person who herds cattle
- Basque: behizain — a person who herds cattle
- Bulgarian: кравар (kravar) — a person who herds cattle
- Bulgarian: говедар (govedar) — a person who herds cattle
- Catalan: vaquer — a person who herds cattle
- Danish: kohyrde — a person who herds cattle
- Finnish: karjapaimen — a person who herds cattle
- Franco-Provençal: vachier — a person who herds cattle
- French: vacher — a person who herds cattle
- French: vachère — a person who herds cattle
- French: bouvier — a person who herds cattle
- French: bouvière — a person who herds cattle
- Friulian: boâr — a person who herds cattle
- Friulian: vacjâr — a person who herds cattle
- German: Kuhhirte — a person who herds cattle
- German: Kuhhirt — a person who herds cattle
- German: Kuhhirtin — a person who herds cattle
- German: Viehhirte — a person who herds cattle
- German: Viehhirt — a person who herds cattle
- German: Viehhirtin — a person who herds cattle
- German: Cowboy — a person who herds cattle
- German: Cowgirl — a person who herds cattle
- Ancient Greek: βουκόλος (boukólos) — a person who herds cattle
- Hungarian: gulyás — a person who herds cattle
- Hungarian: marhapásztor — a person who herds cattle
- Ingrian: lehmäpaimen — a person who herds cattle
- Ingrian: lehmuri — a person who herds cattle
- Irish: buachaill bó — a person who herds cattle
- Irish: aoire bó — a person who herds cattle
- Italian: vaccaio — a person who herds cattle
- Italian: mandriano — a person who herds cattle
- Italian: bovaro — a person who herds cattle
- Japanese: 牛飼い (ushi-kai) — a person who herds cattle
- Latin: bubulcus — a person who herds cattle
- Latin: vaccārius — a person who herds cattle
- Macedonian: кравар (kravar) — a person who herds cattle
- Macedonian: говедар (govedar) — a person who herds cattle
- Mazanderani: گالش (gâleš) — a person who herds cattle
- Middle English: couherde — a person who herds cattle
- Norman: vachi — a person who herds cattle
- Occitan: vaquièr — a person who herds cattle
- Old English: cūhierde — a person who herds cattle
- Persian: گاوچران — a person who herds cattle
- Polish: pasterz — a person who herds cattle
- Polish: pasterka — a person who herds cattle
- Portuguese: vaqueiro — a person who herds cattle
- Romanian: văcar — a person who herds cattle
- Romanian: boar — a person who herds cattle
- Russian: пасту́х (pastúx) — a person who herds cattle
- Russian: ско́тник (skótnik) — a person who herds cattle
- Sanskrit: गोपाल (gopāla) — a person who herds cattle
- Sardinian: boinarzu — a person who herds cattle
- Sardinian: boinàgiu — a person who herds cattle
- Sardinian: boinàrgiu — a person who herds cattle
- Sicilian: mandriotu — a person who herds cattle
- Sicilian: vaccaru — a person who herds cattle
- Spanish: vaquero — a person who herds cattle
- Swedish: koherde — a person who herds cattle
- Turkish: inekçi — a person who herds cattle
- Ottoman Turkish: اینكجی (inekci) — a person who herds cattle
- Venetan: boaro — a person who herds cattle
- Venetan: boar — a person who herds cattle
- Venetan: boer — a person who herds cattle