drover

noun

Definition of drovernext
as in herdsman

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Recent Examples of drover The feature followed an English aristocrat (Nicole Kidman) who inherits a cattle range run by a cattle drover (Hugh Jackman). — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024 Even the shaggy Highland cow, with its ginger hair and barbaric appeal, was a feat of nineteenth-century genetic engineering that would have been a curiosity to cattle drovers of ages past. — Charles King, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2012 As the sun sets, the drovers go over their final tasks for the day such as feeding and watering the livestock. — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 June 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for drover
  1. herdsman
  2. herder
  3. stockman
  4. cattleman
  5. cowherd
  6. rancher
Noun
  • Masud was celebrated as the literary voice of greater Arabia’s nomadic herdsmen—proud sons of the desert, a noble caste of unhurried sybarites not known for their religious orthodoxy.
    — Nell Zink, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Unlike the Islamic extremists that staged the Chibok kidnappings, the deadly criminal gangs terrorizing villages in northwestern Nigeria are mostly former herdsmen who were in conflict with farming host communities, according to authorities.
    — Chinedu Asadu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2024
Definition of herdsman
Noun
  • Among Season 2’s changes, the role of Pete Plenty Clouds has been recast following the death of Cole Brings Plenty, who played a sheep herder in the first season.
    — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2025
  • In Benin, a program brought together farmer and pastoralist communities to spread the word about looming dry spells because drought meant herders would sometimes bring their animals to graze on other people’s farms, and conflicts would get out of hand.
    — Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
Definition of herder
Noun
  • Houston Tye Hinton, resident stockman at the Anchor 7 Cattle Growers Association, is winding down after a long day of branding cattle.
    — Pien Huang, NPR, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Just as Darwin cultivated stockmen and pigeon breeders for their familiarity with the mysterious laws of inheritance, biologists interested in rattlesnakes have beaten a path to Martin’s door.
    — Thomas Palmer, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
Definition of stockman
Noun
  • One morning in early January, the ranch’s owner, Martín Wall, a forty-five-year-old cattleman and a seventh-generation Texan, showed me around.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Together, almost 200 lawsuits allege that everyone from cattlemen to meat wholesalers and distributors to end users like McDonald’s have lost billions of dollars because they were either forced to pay too much for beef or were paid too little for their cattle.
    — Peter Green, Quartz, 26 Oct. 2024
Definition of cattleman
Noun
  • In Mathura, a northern city where Krishna is said to have been born, people recreate a Hindu myth in which Krishna visits Radha to romance her, and her cowherd friends, taking offense at his advances, drive him out with sticks.
    — Hari Kumar, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The girl and the cowherd are separated by a celestial river, but are able to be together one day a year when a flock of magpies forms a bridge over it.
    — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
Definition of cowherd
Noun
  • However, there was significant pushback to the initiative from ranchers and farmers who feared that wolves would eat their livestock.
    — Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Some of the most outspoken critics have been ranchers, who’ve already lost dozens of animals to the predators, and big-game hunters and outfitters, who worry about the effects those wolves will have on deer and elk populations.
    — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 27 Mar. 2025
Definition of rancher

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“Drover.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drover. Accessed 11 Apr. 2025.

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