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Definition of Shepard
1. Noun. United States author of surrealistic allegorical plays (born in 1943).
2. Noun. Astronaut who made the first United States' suborbital rocket-powered flight in 1961 (1923-1998).
Generic synonyms: Astronaut, Cosmonaut, Spaceman
Definition of Shepard
1. Noun. (misspelling of shepherd) ¹
2. Verb. (misspelling of shepherd) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shepard
Literary usage of Shepard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography: From the Earliest Times to 1900 by George Smith, Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1897)
"'The Parable of the/ Ten Virgins opened and applied,' edited by Shepard^ son
Thomas (see ... As a writer Shepard holds high rank among puritan divines. ..."
2. The New England Magazine by Making of America Project (1885)
"Mr. Shepard recalls all the incidents associated with it as vividly to-day ...
In 1855 Mr. Shepard conceived the idea of starting in business for himself, ..."
3. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1911)
"About four on the afternoon of the twenty-fifth, Shepard, as he expected, saw
Shays advancing ... Shepard sent a flag and warned Shays that if he crossed a ..."
4. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (1887)
"THE ESCAPE OF Shepard AND NORTON. [From the Same.] NOW, my loving Reader, let me
lead thee by the hand to our native land, although it was not intended to ..."
5. Publications by Cambridge Historical Society (Mass.) (1908)
"A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE WRITINGS OF THOMAS Shepard THOMAS Shepard was settled over
the Cambridge church in February, 1636, and continued to preach and lecture ..."
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