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Definition of Shepherd

Shepherd

  1. A man employed in tending, feeding, and guarding sheep, esp. a flock grazing at large.
  2. The pastor of a church; one with the religious guidance of others.
  3. To tend as a shepherd; to guard, herd, lead, or drive, as a shepherd.

Shepherd Quotations

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Winston Churchill

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
Laurence J. Peter

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
Stendhal

We were looking for a 'good shepherd,' and instead we got a German shepherd.
Pope Benedict XVI
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Shepherd Translations

shepherd in Afrikaans is herder
shepherd in Dutch is herder
shepherd in French is berger
shepherd in Italian is pecoraio
shepherd in Spanish is pastor

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