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goatherd

goatherd noun: a person who herds, tends goats.

goatherd: a person who herds, tends goats
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Noun

goatherd (plural goatherds)

  1. A person who herds, tends goats.
    • 'Oh, yes. A man was brought to us about a year ago. There'd been a big storm along the southern sector of the Taklamakan. It went on for four or five days. This man was a goatherd from Tongguzbasti. He'd gone out into the desert in search of tamarisk, along with a camel for the load. At midday he...2000, Daniel Easterman, Incarnation (Fiction), →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 411
    • Looking up from the center of Rmaich, a Christian town lodged on Lebanon’s southern border with Israel, a sun-wizened Lebanese goatherd points to a cluster of pine trees on a ridge.2024, Scott Peterson, ‘This is not our war.’ Lebanese Christians caught between Hezbollah and Israel., in: The Christian Science Monitor, June 12 2024

goatherd meaning in Hindi, Urdu and Persian

goatherd in Hindi

person who herds, tends goats
गड़ेरिया gaṛeriyā, गड़रिया gaṛriyā

goatherd in Urdu

بکر وال, چر واہا

goatherd in Persian

person who herds, tends goats
بزبان bozbân

Synonyms of goatherd

Forms of goatherd

pluralgoatherds

Origin of goatherd

From Middle English goteherd, from Old English gāthierde, equivalent to goat + herd (“herder”).

Words formed from goatherd

Questions about goatherd

What does goatherd mean?
Goatherd means a person who herds, tends goats.
What is goatherd in Hindi?
Goatherd in Hindi is गड़ेरिया (gaṛeriyā), गड़रिया (gaṛriyā). See Goatherd meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is goatherd?
Goatherd is a noun.
What is the plural of goatherd?
The plural of goatherd is goatherds.

Words near goatherd in the dictionary

  1. goatfuckers
  2. goatfucks
  3. goatgrass
  4. goatgrasses
  5. goathair
  6. goatherd
  7. goatherder
  8. goatherders
  9. goatherdess
  10. goatherdesses
  11. goatherds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: goatherd (page history and authors); goatherd (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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