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Tamil
Shepherdess
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English (common in East Anglia)
English (common in East Anglia) : occupational name for a servant or a shepherd, from Middle English grÅm(e) ‘boy’, ‘servant’ (of uncertain origin), which in some places was specialized to mean ‘shepherd’.
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English
English : occupational name for a swineherd or shepherd, from Middle English hog(ge) ‘hog’, ‘swine’ or hogg ‘yearling sheep’ + herd, hard ‘herdsman’, but see also Hogarth.
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English
English : from Middle English schepherde ‘shepherd’ (composed of words meaning ‘sheep’ + ‘herdsman’ or ‘guardian’), hence an occupational name for a shepherd. This English form of the name has absorbed cognates and equivalents from several other languages (for forms, see Hanks and Hodges 1988).
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English
English : occupational name for the servant (Middle English man) of a man called Hodge.English : possibly an occupational name for a swineherd or shepherd, from Middle English hoggeman. Compare Hodge 2.
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English
English : of uncertain origin; possibly a nickname for someone with thick curly hair, from Old French floc ‘stable of wool’. Alternatively, it may be a metonymic occupational name for a shepherd, from Old English flocc ‘herd’, ‘company’.German : unexplained.German (Flöck) : variant of Flück (see Fluck), or from a pet form of a personal name formed with Old Saxon flÅd ‘flood’.
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English
English : patronymic from Shepherd.
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English (chiefly southwest)
English (chiefly southwest) : occupational name for a tender of animals, normally a cowherd or shepherd, from Middle English herde (Old English hi(e)rde).
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English, Scottish, and Irish
English, Scottish, and Irish : variant spelling of Hamill.French : topographic name for someone who lived and worked at an outlying farm dependent on the main village, Old French hamel (a diminutive from a Germanic element cognate with Old English hÄm ‘homestead’).German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name from the city of Hamlin, German Hameln, Yiddish Haml, where the Hamel river empties into the Weser. The name of the river probably derives from the Germanic element ham ‘water meadow’.Dutch : metonymic occupational name for a shepherd, from Middle Dutch hamel ‘wether’, ‘castrated ram’.A Hamel from Normandy, France, is documented in St. Jean et St. François, Quebec, in 1666.
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German
German : topographic name for someone who lived by a meadow or pastureland, from Middle High German halte ‘pasture’ + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.South German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from Middle High German haltære ‘keeper’, ‘shepherd’, German Halter.English : occupational name for a maker of halters for horses and cattle, Middle English haltrere (from Old English hælftre ‘halter’).Dutch : metonymic occupational name for a halter-maker, from Middle Dutch halfter, haelter, halter ‘halter’.
Boy/Male
Muslim
Shepherd
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English
English : occupational name for a shepherd, Middle English schepman (literally ‘sheep man’).English : occupational name for a mariner, or occasionally perhaps for a boatbuilder, Middle English schipman (literally ‘ship man’).
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English
English : patronymic from Weather, from Middle English wether ‘wether’, ‘(castrated) ram’ (Old English weðer), hence a nickname for a man supposedly resembling a wether, or a metonymic occupational name for a shepherd.
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English (chiefly Northumbria)
English (chiefly Northumbria) : occupational name for a tender of animals, normally a cowherd or shepherd, from Middle English herde + man ‘man’. The surname is also found in Ireland, where it dates back to around the 14th century.Scottish : status name from Old English hīredman ‘retainer’, denoting a member of a lord’s household and followers, the hīred.German (Herdmann) : occupational name for a tender of animals (see Herder).
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English
English : variant spelling of Shepherd.
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English
English : from a personal name that was popular throughout Christendom in the Middle Ages. The Greek original, Grēgorios, is a derivative of grēgorein ‘to be awake’, ‘to be watchful’. However, the Latin form, Gregorius, came to be associated by folk etymology with grex, gregis, ‘flock’, ‘herd’, under the influence of the Christian image of the good shepherd. The Greek name was borne in the early Christian centuries by two fathers of the Orthodox Church, St. Gregory Nazianzene (c. 325–390) and St. Gregory of Nyssa (c. 331–395), and later by sixteen popes, starting with Gregory the Great (c. 540–604). It was also the name of 3rd- and 4th-century apostles of Armenia. In North America the English form of the name has absorbed many cognates from other European languages. (For forms, see Hanks and Hodges 1988).
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English
English : descriptive nickname for a giant or a large man, from Middle English golias ‘giant’, from the Hebrew personal name Golyat Goliath. In the Bible Goliath was the champion of the Philistines, who stood ‘six cubits and a span’; he was defeated in single combat by the shepherd boy David (I Samuel 17), who killed him with a stone from his sling. There is unlikely to be any connection with the English vocabulary word gully (from Old French goulet ‘neck of a bottle’), which is not attested in this sense before the 17th century.Perhaps an altered spelling of French Goulley, a variant of Goulet.
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English
English : unexplained; perhaps an occupational name for a shepherd, in particular one who castrated rams, from Middle English weder ‘wether’, ‘castrated ram’ + man ‘man’.Americanized form of German Wettermann, a variant of Wetter 2, with the addition of the Middle High German suffix -man ‘man’.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : of uncertain origin. According to Reaney this is an occupational name for a shepherd, from Middle English wether ‘wether’, ‘ram’ + herd ‘herdsman’. His evidence for this interpretation of the final syllable is alternation in the late 15th century between Weydurherd and Wedirhed. Black speculates that the name may be a topographic name from a hill in Berwickshire.
Boy/Male
American, British, English
Shepherd
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n.
A genus of shrubs having silvery scurfy leaves, and belonging to the same family as Elaeagnus; also, any plant of this genus. See Buffalo berry, under Buffalo.
n.
A woman who tends sheep; hence, a rural lass.
a.
Resembling, or becoming to, a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.
n.
A little shepherd.
n.
A man employed in tending, feeding, and guarding sheep, esp. a flock grazing at large.
v. t.
To tend as a shepherd; to guard, herd, lead, or drive, as a shepherd.
n.
A shepherdess; a female herder.
n.
A hut or shelter for shepherds of fishers. See Sheeling.
n.
The pastor of a church; one with the religious guidance of others.
n.
One who herds or assembles domestic animals; a herdsman; -- much used in composition; as, a shepherd; a goatherd, and the like.
n.
Pastoral life or occupation.
n. sing. & pl.
Fig.: The people of God, as being under the government and protection of Christ, the great Shepherd.
imp. & p. p.
of Shepherd
pl.
of Shepherdia
n.
A hut or small cottage in an expessed or a retired place (as on a mountain or at the seaside) such as is used by shepherds, fishermen, sportsmen, etc.; a summer cottage; also, a shed.
n.
A hook fastened to pole, by which shepherds lay hold on the legs or necks of their sheep; a shepherd's crook.
n.
Resembling a shepherd; suiting a shepherd; pastoral.
v. i.
To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Shepherd
v. t.
To accompany as an assistant or protector; to care for the wants of; to look after; to watch; to guard; as, shepherds tend their flocks.