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# shepherd

«shepherd» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person whose job is to look after sheep, keeping them…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a shepherd, shepherds); verb (shepherd, shepherds, shepherded, shepherding)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A shepherd is a person whose job is to look after sheep, keeping them safe and moving them to fresh grass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shepherd/#m1)

2) To shepherd people is to guide them carefully somewhere, like a teacher shepherding children onto a bus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shepherd/#m2)

3) A German shepherd is a large kind of dog. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shepherd/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In farm and countryside lessons, a shepherd works with sheepdogs, counts the flock and protects lambs from foxes. In stories and fables, such as «The Boy Who Cried Wolf», a shepherd boy lies and then is not believed. In everyday life, adults shepherd children across roads.

### examples

- The shepherd led the sheep up the hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shepherd/#x1)
- A sheepdog helps the shepherd round up the flock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shepherd/#x2)
- In the story, the shepherd boy cried «Wolf!» too many times. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shepherd/#x3)
- The teacher shepherded the class onto the bus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shepherd/#x4)
- The shepherd counted 40 sheep in the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shepherd/#x5)
- Our neighbour has a German shepherd called Max. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shepherd/#x6)
- The shepherd stayed up all night when the lambs were born. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shepherd/#x7)

### note

Countable noun; regular verb (shepherded). Pronounced SHEP-erd: the «h» is silent. A woman who does this job is also a shepherd (old word: shepherdess). A German shepherd is a dog, not a person. The group of sheep is a «flock».

### In the corpora

- [Picture a hillside: a shepherd whistles, the dog swings left round the flock, and three hundred sheep move as one.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs/3/)
- [Sheepdog trials are real competitions where dog and shepherd move sheep through gates and into a pen.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs/14/)
- [God sent the prophet Samuel to anoint the youngest son of Jesse, the shepherd boy David, as the future king.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/8-ruth-and-david-and-goliath/9/)
- [Many psalms are linked with King David, who was a shepherd boy before he became king.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/11-psalms-and-proverbs/6/)
- [Psalm 23 begins «The Lord is my shepherd» and pictures God leading, feeding and protecting, even through the darkest valley.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/11-psalms-and-proverbs/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «shepherd» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shepherd/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.