Definitions for Shepherd

Shepherd shep·herd

Spelling: [shep-erd]
IPA: /ˈʃɛp ərd/

Shepherd is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 168 anagrams from letters in Shepherd (deehhprs).

Definitions for Shepherd

noun

  1. a person who herds, tends, and guards sheep.
  2. a person who protects, guides, or watches over a person or group of people.
  3. a member of the clergy.
  4. the Shepherd, Jesus Christ.
  5. sheepdog.
  6. a male given name.

verb (used with object)

  1. to tend or guard as a shepherd:
  2. to watch over carefully.

Origin of Shepherd

before 1050; Middle English shepherde, Old English scēphyrde. See sheep, herd2

Examples for Shepherd

After killing the Egyptian he runs away for years, becomes a shepherd, starts a family.

Grief is not an inmate of the plain; the hours of the shepherd are sped in gaiety and mirth.

In the video, the bus is getting searched by a cop with a German shepherd.

The doctor is nearing them rapidly; they can imagine the shepherd's tartan.

Yes, your German shepherd Buster can wear his own health tracker.

But, oh, shepherd, what avails it to live in hopeless misery?

Rick must shepherd his newborn daughter, Judith, through this world of peril.

Then when we arrive at his flat in shepherd's Bush following the escape, perhaps there ought to be remnants of the ladder.

One of the months in the "shepherd's Calendar" is composed in it.

You too are young and uninured even to the misfortunes of the shepherd.

Word Value for Shepherd
Scrable

17

Words with friends

16

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