Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who herds or tends cattle.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One whose occupation is the care of cattle.
- noun A former false spelling of
coward , simulating cowherd. Seecoward .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One whose occupation is to tend cows.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
herds cattle ; acowboy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback
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Examples
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The cowherd is a great hulking young man, much bigger than the man who beat him, but he took his punishment as part of the day's work and made no remark of any sort.
Elizabeth and Her German Garden Elizabeth von Arnim 1903
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This servant in turn gave the baby to a kindly cowherd, who secretly raised him as his own.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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This servant in turn gave the baby to a kindly cowherd, who secretly raised him as his own.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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From under the trees beyond emerged a file of cows, and then a cowherd.
A Local Life: Ross Merrill, 67: Painter and National Gallery's chief of conservation Matt Schudel 2011
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He was a cowherd in the ranges beyond Carmel, and his wife was a maidservant in the great Del Monte Hotel.
Page 2 2010
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Herz Aus Glas Heart of Glass, his story of a mythical cowherd prophet and a cursed village of glassblowers, opens with a short visual essay on the country in which he grew up, the Chiemgau Alps of southern Bavaria.
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This servant in turn gave the baby to a kindly cowherd, who secretly raised him as his own.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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Next to it, Jacob in "The Slave", living in captivity as a cowherd.
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Without any delay the king goes to that very spot where the cowherd boys had done the pooja earlier, gathers them all around him performs the Satyanarayana Pooja with all shraddha and bhakthi.
Shree Satya Narayan Puja « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2008
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A few yards away a small group of cowherd boys had gathered to perform Sri Satyanarayana Pooja.
Shree Satya Narayan Puja « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2008
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