From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishshepherdshep‧herd1 /ˈʃepəd $ -ərd/ noun [countable] BOTAsomeone whose job is to take care of sheep
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shepherd• The second ad in the series actually equips our shepherd with a surfboard.• It must be for Miss Everdene's shepherd.• Naturally the shepherds who had brought their flocks across must know the safest route.• Either we become regarded as gratuitously destructive iconoclasts, or the shepherd himself becomes suspect for having withheld information.• He told the shepherd to tell his own people that he would use these weapons to regain the Holy Sepulchre.• Maurine was the shepherd in our house.• George pushed his way through the throng, looking for the spot where the shepherds were gathered.• The shepherd followed her instructions and discovered April, changed back from a flower.shepherdshepherd2 verb [transitive always + adverb/preposition] TAKE/BRINGto lead or guide a group of people somewhere, making sure that they go where you want them to goshepherd somebody into/out of/towards etc something The tour guides shepherded the rest of the group onto the bus.► see thesaurus at lead→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpus
shepherd• In return for shepherding a parcel round-trip.• The police officer shepherded everyone away and padlocked the church gates.• Joseph smiled and apologized once more and watched as Tran Van Hieu shepherded his family off the terrace.• It was also a major victory for Boxer, who sponsored the legislation in the Senate and shepherded it through.• Yet he was able to shepherd more than 80 percent through to passage.• We expected to be asked to sit down, but instead we were shepherded out to an open patio at the back of the house.• These can be used to shepherd photons around and keep them under control.• George Martin, who has shepherded the transition since he arrived in July 1993.• Ellsworth, who had gone ahead, retraced his steps to shepherd the two through.Origin shepherd1 Old English sceaphyrde, from sceap “sheep” + hyrde “herdsman” 