noun
Meaning 1
A person who tends to geese.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
gooseherd
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History
Etymology
From goose + herd (“herder”). Inherited from Middle English gosherde, from Old English gōshierde, a compound of gōs (“goose”) and hierde (“herder”).
Across languages
Translations
46 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Basque: antzarazain — person who takes care of geese
- Catalan: oquer — person who takes care of geese
- Catalan: oquera — person who takes care of geese
- Catalan: ocater — person who takes care of geese
- Catalan: ocatera — person who takes care of geese
- Chinese Mandarin: 飼鵝者 /饲鹅者 (sì'ézhě) — person who takes care of geese
- Czech: husák — person who takes care of geese
- Dutch: ganzenhoeder — person who takes care of geese
- Dutch: ganzenherder — person who takes care of geese
- Dutch: gansherder — person who takes care of geese
- Dutch: ganzenhoederin — person who takes care of geese
- Dutch: ganzenherderin — person who takes care of geese
- Dutch: gansherderin — person who takes care of geese
- Esperanto: anseristo — person who takes care of geese
- Estonian: hanesid karjatama — person who takes care of geese
- French: gardeur d'oies — person who takes care of geese
- French: gardeur d'oie — person who takes care of geese
- French: gardeux d'oies — person who takes care of geese
- French: gardeux d'oie — person who takes care of geese
- French: gardeuse d'oies — person who takes care of geese
- French: gardeuse d'oie — person who takes care of geese
- German: Gänsehirt — person who takes care of geese
- German: Gänsehirte — person who takes care of geese
- German: Gänsehirtin — person who takes care of geese
- Greek: χηνοβοσκός (chinovoskós) — person who takes care of geese
- Greek: χηνάρης (chináris) — person who takes care of geese
- Greek: χηνάρισσα (chinárissa) — person who takes care of geese
- Hungarian: libapásztor — person who takes care of geese
- Italian: guardiano d'oche — person who takes care of geese
- Italian: guardiana d'oche — person who takes care of geese
- Central Kurdish: قازەوان (qazewan) — person who takes care of geese
- Northern Kurdish: qazvan — person who takes care of geese
- Latin: avicārius — person who takes care of geese
- Latin: aucārius — person who takes care of geese
- Polish: gęsiarz — person who takes care of geese
- Polish: gęsiarek — person who takes care of geese
- Polish: gęsiarka — person who takes care of geese
- Polish: gęsiareczka — person who takes care of geese
- Romanian: gâscar — person who takes care of geese
- Romanian: gâscăriță — person who takes care of geese
- Slovene: gosar — person who takes care of geese
- Spanish: ansarero — person who takes care of geese
- Spanish: ansarera — person who takes care of geese
- Swedish: gåsherde — person who takes care of geese
- Vietnamese: người chân ngỗng — person who takes care of geese
- Welsh: bugail gwyddau — person who takes care of geese