cowherd

One minding bovines

A cowherd is a person who tends cattle, driving them to pasture and watching over them while they graze.

The word is old-fashioned in most contexts, replaced by rancher or cowboy in American English: The cowherd led the animals to higher ground for summer grazing.

herding

drover

One who moves livestock

vaquero · cowboy · cowpoke · cowhand · buckaroo · gaucho · goatherd · pastoralist · cattleman · roundup

cattle

bovine

Of the cattle family

  • grazingFeeding on pasture
  • dairyMilk-based foods collectively
  • beefBovine meat for eating

milking · heifer · bull · calf · oxen · steer · udder · ruminant · mooing · fodder

pastoral

bucolic

Idyllically rural

meadow · pasture · countryside · tranquil · verdant · grazing · flock · homestead · nature · serenity

mythology

Krishna

Eighth avatar of Vishnu

legend · eclogue · Arcadia

Categories
Opposites
animal husbandry specialization

cowherdshepherd

One who tends flocks

goatherd · swineherd · beekeeper · horseman · fish farmer

relationship to cattle

cowherdbutcher

One who sells cuts

cattle rustler · slaughterer · slaughterman · predator · meat packer

occupational setting

cowherdfactory worker

Manufacturing floor employee

office worker · city dweller · urbanite · stockbroker · businessman

Family

cowherds, cowherder, cowherders

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G