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swineherds

swineherds is the plural of swineherd.

Meaning of swineherd

Noun

swineherd (plural swineherds)

  1. A person who herds and tends swine, a keeper of swine (pigs).
    • But what of that vast number of the human kind who were always in the background? What of the hewers of wood and drawers of water, the swineherds, the shepherds, the carpenters, the hedgers and cobblers?1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals, London: Longmans, Green and Co., page 13

Questions about swineherds

What is swineherds the plural of?
Swineherds is the plural of swineherd.

Words near swineherds in the dictionary

  1. swineherder
  2. swineherders
  3. swineherdess
  4. swineherdesses
  5. swineherding
  6. swineherds
  7. swineherdship
  8. swinehood
  9. swinehound
  10. swinehounds
  11. swinelike

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