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Swineherd

Definition: Swineherd

Swineherd

Noun

1. A herder or swine.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "swineherd" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)


Synonym: Swineherd

Synonym: pigman (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Swineherd

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Servant

Attendant, squire, usher, page, donzel, footboy; train bearer, cup bearer; waiter, lapster, butler, livery servant, lackey, footman, flunky, flunkey, valet, valet de chambre; equerry, groom; jockey, hostler, ostler, tiger, orderly, messenger, cad, gillie, herdsman, swineherd; barkeeper, bartender; bell boy, boots, boy, counterjumper; khansamah, khansaman; khitmutgar; yardman.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Swineherd

English words defined with "swineherd": HogherdSaint Anthony's nut. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Swineherd

DomainTitle

Books

  • Andersen's Fairy Tales: The Ugly Duckling, the Real Princess, the Red Shoes, the Swineherd (reference)

  • Der Schweinehirt/the Swineherd (Zwerger) (reference)

  • Something for Everyone: Dad's Always Right, the Swineherd, the Emperor's New Clothes (reference)

  • Swineherd (reference)

  • The Little Swineherd, and Other Tales (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Swineherd

"Swineherd" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Swineherd" is used about 6 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%6143,867

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Swineherd

Language Translations for "swineherd"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

barri derrash. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

свинар. (various references)

   

Czech

  

pasák vepřù. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

sikopaimen. (various references)

   

German

  

Schweineherde. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

χοιρόβοσκοσ. (various references)

   

Manx

  

bochilley muickey. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ineherdsway

   

Portuguese

  

guardador de porcos. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

porcar (swine-herd). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

свинопас. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

svinjar. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

porquero (pigman). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

svinaherde. (various references)

   

Thai

  

คนเลี้ยงหมู. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

domuz çobanı (pigman). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

свинопас. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

người chăn lợn. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

meichiad. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Swineherd

Derivations

Words beginning with "swineherd": swineherds. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Swineherd

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-h-i-n-r-s-w"

-1 letter: reshined, rewidens, shrewdie, wideners.

-2 letters: deniers, endwise, henries, hinders, inhered, inheres, nerdish, nereids, newsier, reshine, resined, rewiden, rewinds, shrewed, shrined, sinewed, weiners, wherein, whiners, widener, wieners, winders.

-3 letters: denier, denies, denser, desire, dewier, dienes, diners, dwines, eiders, enders, heders, heired, herein, hewers, hiders, hinder, inhere, nereid, nereis, newies, newish, newsie, reined, renews, resend.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-h-i-n-r-s-w"
 

+1 letter: swineherds.

 

+3 letters: underweights.

 

+5 letters: dwarfishnesses, hundredweights.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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