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shepherd | sponsored |

As a proper noun shepherd

is .

As a verb sponsored is

(sponsor).

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.

    • sponsored

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (sponsor)

    • sponsor

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person or organisation with some sort of responsibility for another person or organisation, especially where the responsibility has a religious, legal, or financial aspect.
  • :
  • :
  • *
  • *:The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it. […] But there was not a more lascivious reprobate and gourmand in all London than this same Greystone.
  • #A senior member of a twelve step or similar program assigned to a guide a new initiate and form a partnership with him.
  • #:
  • One that pays all or part of the cost of an event, a publication, or a media program, usually in exchange for advertising time.
  • :

    • Synonyms

    * patron, underwriter

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be a sponsor for.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.}}

    Derived terms

    * sponsorial * sponsorship

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