as in shepherd
a tender of livestock
a lone herdsman stood with his sheep and his dog on the hillside
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Recent Examples of herdsman
On one side are the ostensible good guys, a group of roving herdsmen who had fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War.
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Vikram Murthi, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
As freshwater bodies dry up or recede, pastoralists have to search more widely for water and grazing land, bringing them in conflict with other herdsmen doing the same.
—Brahma Chellaney, Foreign Affairs, 8 Apr. 2014
The wheel, keeping pace with the herdsman, will follow.
—Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 May 2024
Even as the country became Buddhist in the 16th century, the herdsmen found solace in its reassuring rituals and its promise of contact with the spirit world.
—Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Mar. 2024
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Vikram Murthi, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
As freshwater bodies dry up or recede, pastoralists have to search more widely for water and grazing land, bringing them in conflict with other herdsmen doing the same.
—Brahma Chellaney, Foreign Affairs, 8 Apr. 2014
The wheel, keeping pace with the herdsman, will follow.
—Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 May 2024
Even as the country became Buddhist in the 16th century, the herdsmen found solace in its reassuring rituals and its promise of contact with the spirit world.
—Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for herdsman
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German shepherds and huskies might even enjoy being outdoors in the cold weather, and may not be the answer for these dogs.Alice Gibbs, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
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After that point, Bring Them Down is off to the races, revealing itself as a gripping, bloody turf war-slash-Western, played out between Abbott’s shepherd and his duplicitous young neighbor.Damon Wise, Deadline, 31 Dec. 2024
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The works often portray white cowboys on horseback in conflict with Indigenous people.Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 15 Jan. 2025
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Tim Blake Nelson sets the stage beautifully with his opening bit about a singing cowboy, but there are a number of scene-stealers here including Harry Melling, Tom Waits, and Bill Heck.Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 2 Jan. 2025
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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.Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 2 Dec. 2024
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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
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“Herdsman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/herdsman. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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