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Definition: Goatherd |
GoatherdNoun1. A person who tends a flock of goats. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "goatherd" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonym: GoatherdSynonym: goatherder (n). (additional references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The goat and the goatherd. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Goatherd" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Goatherd" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
goatherd lonely | 5 |
goatherd lonely lyrics | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "goatherd"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | dhiar, bari dhish. (various references) | |
Arabic | راعي ماعز. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | козарче, козар. (various references) | |
Czech | pasák koz. (various references) | |
Danish | gedehyrde. (various references) | |
Dutch | geitenhoeder. (various references) | |
Finnish | vuohipaimen. (various references) | |
French | chevrier (goat keeper, goatman). (various references) | |
German | Ziegenhirt. (various references) | |
Greek | αιγοβοσκόσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | רועה עזים. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kecskepásztor. (various references) | |
Italian | capraro, capraio (goat keeper, goatman). (various references) | |
Manx | bochilley goair. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oatherdgay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cabreiro (suspicious). (various references) | |
Romanian | cioban (cowherd, herd, Shepherd), cãprar (Corporal). (various references) | |
Russian | пастух (cattleman, oxherd). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kozar. (various references) | |
Spanish | cabrero (goat keeper, goatman, lantern net). (various references) | |
Swedish | getherde. (various references) | |
Thai | คนเลี้ยงแพะ. (various references) | |
Turkish | keçi çobanı. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | чабан (sheepman, Shepherd). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "goatherd": goatherds. (additional references) | |
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"Goatherd" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gaithert, Goalher, goathe, goathered, goatshed, goehlert, goither, guentheri, Gunthardt. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-h-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: garoted, hagrode. | |
-2 letters: dearth, dehort, dogear, dotage, garote, gather, gherao, grated, hatred, orated, orgeat, thread, togaed. | |
-3 letters: adore, argot, dater, death, derat, doeth, doter, earth, ergot, garth, gated, gator, gerah, godet, gored, grade, grate, great, groat, hared, hated, hater, heard, heart, hoard, horde, oared, oater, orate, oread, other, raged, rated, rathe, retag, tardo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-h-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: goatherds, godfather. | |
+2 letters: dogcatcher, godfathers, headstrong, orthograde, outcharged. | |
+3 letters: autographed, dogcatchers, dreadnought, forgathered, goddaughter, godfathered, grandmother, hydrogenate, typographed. | |
+4 letters: dreadnoughts, foregathered, goddaughters, godfathering, grandmothers, hectographed, hydrogenated, hydrogenates, lithographed, photographed, shortchanged, stranglehold, turbocharged. | |
+5 letters: dehydrogenate, grandmotherly, hydrogenating, hydrogenation, hydromagnetic, photoengraved, stereographed, strangleholds. | |
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