noun
Meaning 1
One who herds.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Near-synonym: herdsman
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: herd, herdsman
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
herder
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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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhɜːdə/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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General-American: /ˈhɝːdɚ/
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rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)də(ɹ)
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CMU ARPABET: HH EH1 R D ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: HH ER1 D ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
someone who drives a herd
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: herdsman, drover
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: hired hand, hand, hired man
Narrower terms: goat herder, goatherd, sheepherder, shepherd, sheepman, swineherd, pigman
noun
Meaning 3
German philosopher who advocated intuition over reason (1744-1803)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Johann Gottfried von Herder
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: philosopher
History
Etymology
From Middle English herder, herdere, hurder (attested as a surname), an alteration of Middle English herde (“herder, herdsman”), from Old English hyrde, hierde (“herder”), from Proto-West Germanic *hirdī, from Proto-Germanic *hirdijaz, equivalent to herd + -er. Doublet of herd ("herder"), as in cowherd, goatherd, shepherd, etc.
Across languages
Translations
50 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Northern Altai: манджы (mandžï) — one who herds
- Southern Altai: кӱдӱчи (küdüči) — one who herds
- Arabic: رَاعٍ (rāʕin) — one who herds
- Azerbaijani: çoban — one who herds
- Azerbaijani: naxırçı — one who herds
- Bashkir: көтөүсе (kötöwse) — one who herds
- Bulgarian: пастир (pastir) — one who herds
- Chinese Mandarin: 牧民 (mùmín) — one who herds
- Danish: hyrde — one who herds
- Dutch: herder — one who herds
- Estonian: karjus — one who herds
- Finnish: paimen — one who herds
- German: Hirt — one who herds
- German: Hirte — one who herds
- German: Hirtin — one who herds
- Gothic: 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌳𐌴𐌹𐍃 (hairdeis) — one who herds
- Hebrew: רוֹעֶה (ro'é) — one who herds
- Hungarian: pásztor — one who herds
- Hungarian: juhász — one who herds
- Italian: guardiano — one who herds
- Italian: guardiano di greggi — one who herds
- Italian: pecoraio — one who herds
- Italian: pastore — one who herds
- Italian: porcaro — one who herds
- Italian: vaccaro — one who herds
- Italian: buttero — one who herds
- Italian: capraio — one who herds
- Kazakh: бақташы (baqtaşy) — one who herds
- Middle English: herde — one who herds
- Middle English: herdeman — one who herds
- Mongolian: малчин (malčin) — one who herds
- Navajo: naʼniłkaadí — one who herds
- Polish: pasterz — one who herds
- Polish: pasterka — one who herds
- Polish: pastuch — one who herds
- Polish: pastuszka — one who herds
- Romanian: cioban — one who herds
- Romanian: văcar (cowherd) — one who herds
- Romanian: păstor — one who herds
- Romanian: păcurar — one who herds
- Russian: пасту́х (pastúx) — one who herds
- Russian: пасту́шка (pastúška) — one who herds
- Russian: ско́тник (skótnik) — one who herds
- Russian: ско́тница (skótnica) — one who herds
- Russian: чаба́н (čabán) — one who herds
- Spanish: manadero — one who herds
- Turkish: celep — one who herds
- Volapük: jepan — one who herds
- Volapük: hijepan — one who herds
- Volapük: jijepan — one who herds