: one that herds
specifically
: a person who manages, breeds, or tends to livestock : herdsman sense 1
Examples of herder in a Sentence
the nomadic reindeer herders of Siberia live in reindeer-skin tents
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Johnson told the Statesman the lawsuit ended in a settlement paid out to the herder.
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Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 17 Jan. 2025
In the fall and winter, the herders settle in houses closer to towns and cities so that their children can go to school.
—Chang W. Lee, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2024
Zooming back some two or three thousand years, the original blood-sweating horses were bred by nomadic herders in Central Asia—a group known, at various times and in various contexts, as the Yuezhi, Kushana, or Tukhara.
—Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 2 Dec. 2024
Their guttural sounds are their own kind of haunting music as we are drawn into the world of two camel herders in rural Somalia: widow and force-of-nature Qalifo and loyal only son Asa (newcomers Maan Youssouf Ahmed and Elmi Rashid Elmi).
—Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2024
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Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 17 Jan. 2025
In the fall and winter, the herders settle in houses closer to towns and cities so that their children can go to school.
—Chang W. Lee, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2024
Zooming back some two or three thousand years, the original blood-sweating horses were bred by nomadic herders in Central Asia—a group known, at various times and in various contexts, as the Yuezhi, Kushana, or Tukhara.
—Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 2 Dec. 2024
Their guttural sounds are their own kind of haunting music as we are drawn into the world of two camel herders in rural Somalia: widow and force-of-nature Qalifo and loyal only son Asa (newcomers Maan Youssouf Ahmed and Elmi Rashid Elmi).
—Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2024
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“Herder.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/herder. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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