as in cowboy
a tender of livestock
the nomadic reindeer herders of Siberia live in reindeer-skin tents
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Recent Examples of herder
Johnson told the Statesman the lawsuit ended in a settlement paid out to the herder.
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Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 17 Jan. 2025
In the fall and winter, the herders settle in houses closer to towns and cities so that their children can go to school.
—Chang W. Lee, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2024
Zooming back some two or three thousand years, the original blood-sweating horses were bred by nomadic herders in Central Asia—a group known, at various times and in various contexts, as the Yuezhi, Kushana, or Tukhara.
—Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 2 Dec. 2024
Their guttural sounds are their own kind of haunting music as we are drawn into the world of two camel herders in rural Somalia: widow and force-of-nature Qalifo and loyal only son Asa (newcomers Maan Youssouf Ahmed and Elmi Rashid Elmi).
—Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2024
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Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 17 Jan. 2025
In the fall and winter, the herders settle in houses closer to towns and cities so that their children can go to school.
—Chang W. Lee, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2024
Zooming back some two or three thousand years, the original blood-sweating horses were bred by nomadic herders in Central Asia—a group known, at various times and in various contexts, as the Yuezhi, Kushana, or Tukhara.
—Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 2 Dec. 2024
Their guttural sounds are their own kind of haunting music as we are drawn into the world of two camel herders in rural Somalia: widow and force-of-nature Qalifo and loyal only son Asa (newcomers Maan Youssouf Ahmed and Elmi Rashid Elmi).
—Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for herder
Noun
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Its 45 larger-than-life figures—cowboys on horseback, women riding sidesaddle, and lots of covered wagons— make up one of the world’s largest bronze sculpture installations.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
7 Feb. 2025
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That was my experience at Rebuilding, in which Josh O’Connor plays a cowboy who’s just lost the family farm in a massive wildfire, and who’s struggling to put his life back together.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
31 Jan. 2025
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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
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In 1997, Thimphu told Beijing that Tibetan herdsmen had been intruding into the Jakarlung valley and even constructed sheds there, according to Bhutan’s National Assembly records cited by Barnett.—
Simone McCarthy,
CNN,
5 Nov. 2024
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Before his passing on April 12, Dax, a German shepherd, fathered a litter of puppies.—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Feb. 2025
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German shepherds are frequently used as working dogs, whether in the military or police, for patrolling, bomb detection, and search and rescue.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
13 Feb. 2025
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“Herder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/herder. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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