Goatherd is an English word with synonyms like herder or herdsman. Below you'll find 4 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Goatherd meaning
A person who herds, tends goats.
Using Goatherd
- The main meaning on this page is: A person who herds, tends goats.
- Useful related words include: goat herder, herder, herdsman, drover.
Context around Goatherd
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 2 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Goatherd
- In this selection, "goatherd" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, moroccan, lonely, simple and gendun stand out and add context to how "goatherd" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a simple goatherd gendun drup and as a goatherd at a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "goatherd" sits close to words such as aaai, aani and aarne, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with goatherd
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Maria sings " The Lonely Goatherd " to distract them. (8 words)
Cinema main Cinema in Morocco has a long history, stretching back over a century to the filming of Le chevrier Marocain ("The Moroccan Goatherd") by Louis Lumière in 1897. (29 words)
The film is an adaptation of Benyamin’s acclaimed 2008 novel of the same name about a Malayali immigrant Najeeb is forced into slavery as a goatherd at a remote farm in Saudi Arabia. (34 words)
The film is an adaptation of Benyamin’s acclaimed 2008 novel of the same name about a Malayali immigrant Najeeb is forced into slavery as a goatherd at a remote farm in Saudi Arabia. (34 words)
Mullin 2001, p.61 Though born in a cattle pen to be a simple goatherd, Gendun Drup thus rose to become one of the most celebrated and respected teachers in Tibet and Central Asia. (34 words)
Cinema main Cinema in Morocco has a long history, stretching back over a century to the filming of Le chevrier Marocain ("The Moroccan Goatherd") by Louis Lumière in 1897. (29 words)
Example sentences (4)
The film is an adaptation of Benyamin’s acclaimed 2008 novel of the same name about a Malayali immigrant Najeeb is forced into slavery as a goatherd at a remote farm in Saudi Arabia.
Cinema main Cinema in Morocco has a long history, stretching back over a century to the filming of Le chevrier Marocain ("The Moroccan Goatherd") by Louis Lumière in 1897.
Maria sings " The Lonely Goatherd " to distract them.
Mullin 2001, p.61 Though born in a cattle pen to be a simple goatherd, Gendun Drup thus rose to become one of the most celebrated and respected teachers in Tibet and Central Asia.