shepherd

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun a clergyman who watches over a group of people
  2. noun a herder of sheep (on an open range); someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock
  3. verb watch over like a shepherd, as a teacher of her pupils

Etymology

From Middle English schepherde, from Old English sċēaphierde, a compound of sċēap (“sheep”) and hierde (“herdsman”), equivalent to modern sheep + herd (“herder”).

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