goatherd

[ goht-hurd ]

noun

1. a person who tends goats.

goatherd

/ ˈɡəʊtˌhɜːd /

noun

1. a person employed to tend or herd goats

Word History and Origins

Origin of goatherd¹

before 1000; Middle English; Old English gāthyrde. See goat, herd ²

Example Sentences

I wished I could return to my village, where I had chores of my own and knew how to earn a bowl from the goatherd’s stew pot.

From Literature

An old goatherd imparts sage advice, telling Damien that “time shifts for the grieving. Our bodies change; things don’t quite appear the same anymore.”

From Seattle Times

“Or maybe a goatherd,” I said, shaking the others awake.

From Literature

His father, a goatherd, added to his income with railroad construction work.

From Washington Post

Hama Soor wore the standard outfit of a Zagros goatherd: wide trousers, a broad waistband and a tasseled brown head scarf whose pattern was so typically Kurdish it sometimes got wearers in trouble in Turkey.

From New York Times

Related Words

• herder
• rancher