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Defender is a related term of shepherd.


As a noun defender

is someone who defends people or property.

As a proper noun shepherd is

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defender

English

Alternative forms

* defendor (obsolete) * defendour (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone who defends people or property.
  • (legal) A lawyer who represents defendants.
  • A fighter who repels an attack.
  • (sports) One of the players whose primary task is to prevent the opposition from scoring.

    • shepherd

    English

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia shepherd)
  • A person who tends sheep, especially a grazing flock.
  • *
  • *:It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd' s plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
  • (lb) Someone who watches over]], [[look after, looks after, or guides somebody.
  • *1769 , Oxford Standard text, , 23, i,
  • *:The LORD is my shepherd ; I shall not want.
  • (lb) The pastor of a church; one who guides others in religion.

    • Synonyms

    * sheepherder

    Coordinate terms

    * shepherdess

    Derived terms

    * archshepherd, Archshepherd (Koine Greek: 5:4) * chief shepherd, Chief Shepherd * shepherd's crook * shepherd's pie * undershepherd

    Related terms

    * bearherd * cowherd * goatherd * gooseherd * herd * herder * herding dog * herd instinct * herd's grass * herdsman * Herdsman (the constellation ) * herdswoman * neatherd * hogherd * horseherd * oxherd * swanherd * swineherd

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To watch over; to guide
  • (Australian rules football) For a player to obstruct an opponent from getting to the ball, either when a teammate has it or is going for it, or if the ball is about to bounce through the goal or out of bounds.