as in cowboy
a tender of livestock
the nomadic reindeer herders of Siberia live in reindeer-skin tents
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Recent Examples of herder
Historically nomadic herders, many Bedouins now reside in a constellation of cities and hamlets throughout southern Israel, some of which lack basic government services like running water and electricity.
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Aaron Boxerman, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
Johnson told the Statesman the lawsuit ended in a settlement paid out to the herder.
—Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 17 Jan. 2025
In the fall and winter, the herders settle in houses closer to towns and cities so that their children can go to school.
—Chang W. Lee, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2024
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.
—Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 2 Dec. 2024
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Aaron Boxerman, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
Johnson told the Statesman the lawsuit ended in a settlement paid out to the herder.
—Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 17 Jan. 2025
In the fall and winter, the herders settle in houses closer to towns and cities so that their children can go to school.
—Chang W. Lee, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2024
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.
—Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 2 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for herder
Noun
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Instead, stabilizers are cowboys tasked with wrangling a very specific herd: water.—
Ali Bouzari,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
28 Mar. 2025
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How many movie cowboys would admit that? ‘Shirkers’ (2018) Stream it on Netflix.—
Ben Kenigsberg,
New York Times,
26 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Unlike the Islamic extremists that staged the Chibok kidnappings, the deadly criminal gangs terrorizing villages in northwestern Nigeria are mostly former herdsmen who were in conflict with farming host communities, according to authorities.—
Chinedu Asadu,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Apr. 2024
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In 1997, Thimphu told Beijing that Tibetan herdsmen had been intruding into the Jakarlung valley and even constructed sheds there, according to Bhutan’s National Assembly records cited by Barnett.—
Simone McCarthy,
CNN,
5 Nov. 2024
Noun
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Jade, a 3-year-old shepherd, was originally adopted from an animal shelter in Olathe, Kansas, in December 2024.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
18 Mar. 2025
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Saint Patrick was actually British, captured by Irish pirates and enslaved as a teenager to work as a shepherd.—
Maureen Murphy,
Hartford Courant,
14 Mar. 2025
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“Herder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/herder. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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