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Herdman vs Nomad - What's the difference?

herdman | nomad |

As nouns the difference between herdman and nomad

is that herdman is (obsolete) someone who herds animals; a herdsman while nomad is nomad.

As an adjective nomad is

nomadic.

herdman

English

Noun

(herdmen)
  • (obsolete) Someone who herds animals; a herdsman.
  • *1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke VIII:
  • *:And the heerd toke their course, and ran heedlynge into the lake, and wer choked. when the herdmen sawe what had chaunsed, they fleed, and tolde it in the cite and in the villages.

    • nomad

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia nomad) (en noun)
  • A member of a group of people who, having no fixed home, move around seasonally in search of food, water and grazing etc.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
    • , title= Geothermal Energy , volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads , wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}
  • A wanderer.

    • Derived terms

    * grey nomad * nomade * nomadic * nomadism

    Anagrams

    * * ---- ==Serbo-Croatian==

    Noun

    • Declension

    {{sh-decl-noun , nòm?d, nomadi , nomáda, nomada , nomadu, nomadima , nomada, nomade , nomade, nomadi , nomadu, nomadima , nomadom, nomadima }}