Definition of Goatherd

1. Noun. A person who tends a flock of goats.

Exact synonyms: Goat Herder
Generic synonyms: Drover, Herder, Herdsman

Definition of Goatherd

1. n. One who tends goats.

Definition of Goatherd

1. Noun. A person who tends goats. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Goatherd

1. one who tends goats [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Goatherd

goat ropes
goat rue
goat willow
goatburger
goatburgers
goated
goatee
goatee'd
goateed
goatees
goatfish
goatfishes
goatherd (current term)
goatherder
goatherders
goatherds
goathood
goatier
goatiest
goating
goatings
goatish
goatishly
goatishness
goatlike
goatling
goatlings

Literary usage of Goatherd

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de ( Cervantes Saavedra, Henry Edward Watts (1888)
"Of what a goatherd told those who were with Don Quixote. ... —For her, I say, returned the goatherd, and the best of it is that he has directed in his will ..."

2. The Idylls of Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus: And The Warsongs of Tyrtæus by Theocritus, Tyrtaeus (1853)
"goatherd. Sweeter thy song than yonder gliding down Of water from the rock's ... О wilt thou, for the Nymphs' sake, goatherd ! fill Thy pipe with music on ..."

3. A Collection of Popular Tales from the Norse and North German by Sir George Webbe Dasent (1906)
"PETER CLAUS, a goatherd from Sittendorf, who led his herd to pasture on the ... While the goatherd was thus standing, lost in astonishment at hearing the ..."

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