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# shepherdess

«shepherdess» in Mova's school dictionary: **A woman or girl who looks after sheep** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a shepherdess, shepherdesses)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A woman or girl who looks after sheep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shepherdess/#m1)

2) (stories, art) A figure of a pretty shepherdess in old paintings, poems and china ornaments. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shepherdess/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories, nursery rhymes and old art, shepherdesses tend sheep in the fields, like Little Bo-Peep who lost her sheep. Today the word "shepherd" is often used for both men and women. In the Bible, Rachel looked after her father's sheep. Phrases: a china shepherdess, little shepherdess.

### examples

- Little Bo-Peep was a shepherdess who lost her sheep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shepherdess/#x1)
- The shepherdess led the flock up the hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shepherdess/#x2)
- Gran has a china shepherdess on her shelf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shepherdess/#x3)
- In the Bible, Rachel was a shepherdess. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shepherdess/#x4)
- The shepherdess whistled to her dog. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shepherdess/#x5)
- The story is about a shepherdess and a chimney sweep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shepherdess/#x6)
- "This is terrible," said the little shepherdess. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shepherdess/#x7)

### note

Plural: shepherdesses. Today many people say "shepherd" for any person who looks after sheep. Spelling: shep-herd-ess, silent h in "shepherd" (said "SHEP-erd").

### Trees and pragmatics

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