: one that herds
specifically
: a person who manages, breeds, or tends to livestock : herdsman sense 1
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the nomadic reindeer herders of Siberia live in reindeer-skin tents
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Zooming back some two or three thousand years, the original blood-sweating horses were bred by nomadic herders in Central Asia—a group known, at various times and in various contexts, as the Yuezhi, Kushana, or Tukhara.
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Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 2 Dec. 2024
Their guttural sounds are their own kind of haunting music as we are drawn into the world of two camel herders in rural Somalia: widow and force-of-nature Qalifo and loyal only son Asa (newcomers Maan Youssouf Ahmed and Elmi Rashid Elmi).
—Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2024
Highlights include dogsledding, curling lessons with locals, dining with homesteaders, soaking in geothermal hot springs, snowshoeing on private land, and tea with reindeer herders.
—Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Many farming communities have also accused herders of rape.
—Udo Jude Ilo, Foreign Affairs, 23 Jan. 2019
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Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 2 Dec. 2024
Their guttural sounds are their own kind of haunting music as we are drawn into the world of two camel herders in rural Somalia: widow and force-of-nature Qalifo and loyal only son Asa (newcomers Maan Youssouf Ahmed and Elmi Rashid Elmi).
—Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2024
Highlights include dogsledding, curling lessons with locals, dining with homesteaders, soaking in geothermal hot springs, snowshoeing on private land, and tea with reindeer herders.
—Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Many farming communities have also accused herders of rape.
—Udo Jude Ilo, Foreign Affairs, 23 Jan. 2019
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“Herder.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/herder. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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