Dictionary & Thesaurus

shepherd

1.	(verb) tend as a shepherd, as of sheep or goats
	Related Words: tend

2.	(verb) watch over like a shepherd, as a teacher of her pupils
	Related Words: guard, ward

3.	(noun) a clergyman who watches over a group of people
	Related Words: clergyman, man of the cloth, reverend

4.	(noun) a herder of sheep (on an open range); someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock
	Synonyms: sheepherder, sheepman
	Related Words: drover, herder, herdsman, shepherdess