shepherd
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a clergyman who watches over a group of people
Types & categories
- clergyman hypernym
Sense 2 verb
watch over like a shepherd, as a teacher of her pupils
Types & categories
- ward hypernym
Sense 3 noun
a herder of sheep (on an open range); someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock
Types & categories
- herdsman hypernym
- shepherdess hyponym
Related & opposite
- shepherd derivation
Sense 4 verb
tend as a shepherd, as of sheep or goats
Types & categories
- tend hypernym
Related & opposite
- sheepherder derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | clergyman |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | ward |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | shepherd |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | herdsman |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | shepherdess |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | sheepherder |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | tend |