different between keeper vs shepherd

English

Etymology

From Middle English kepere, equivalent to keep +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ki?p?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ki?p?/

• Rhymes: -i?p?(r)

Noun

keeper (plural keepers)

1. One who keeps something.

2. (informal) A person or thing worth keeping.
   • 1970, Field & Stream (volume 75, number 7, page 76)

     "Okay, that's a keeper," Harold said as he netted the 3-pounder and put him on a stringer over the side of the boat.

   • 2005, Ladies' Home Journal, Volume 122, Issues 7-12, page 101,

     When he brought me home and volunteered to come with me while I walked my dog, Max, I knew he was a keeper.

   • 2008, Jennifer Zomar, A Candle for the Children, page 28,

     We hadn't dated for long when he said those three magic words: "I'll cook tonight." I knew he was a keeper.

3. A person charged with guarding or caring for, storing, or maintaining something; a custodian, a guard; sometimes a gamekeeper.

   • And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
4. (sports) The player charged with guarding a goal or wicket. Short form of goalkeeper, wicketkeeper.
5. A part of a mechanism that catches or retains another part, for example the part of a door lock that fits in the frame and receives the bolt.
6. (American football) An offensive play in which the quarterback runs toward the goal with the ball after it is snapped.
7. One who remains or keeps in a place or position.

   • discreet; chaste; keepers at home

   • 1971, H. R. F. Keating, The Strong Man

     I was not altogether surprised: they seemed to be, even more than people in the surrounding wolds, stolid keepers-to-themselves, impossible to stir, dourly determined to stick to the firm routine of their lives […]

8. A fruit or vegetable that keeps for some time without spoiling.
   • c. 1847, Andrew Jackson Downing, The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America

     Roxbury Russet: Market and keeper.

   • 1878, Journal of Horticulture and Practical Gardening (volume 35, page 331)

     And mark you, good keepers are some years bad keepers, as this year; and a hard, heavy, unbruisable Apple that really will keep to late on in the season is doubly valuable.

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Anagrams

• peeker

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English keeper.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: kee?per
• Rhymes: -ip?r

Noun

keeper m (plural keepers, diminutive keepertje n)

1. (sports) keeper, goalie

Synonyms

• doelman
• doelvrouw

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: keeper

English

Etymology

From Middle English schepherde, from Old English s??aphierde, a compound of s??ap (“sheep”) and hierde (“herdsman”), equivalent to modern sheep +? herd (“herder”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???p?d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???p?d/
• Hyphenation: shep?herd

Noun

shepherd (plural shepherds, feminine shepherdess)

1. 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.

2. (figuratively) Someone who watches over, looks after, or guides somebody.
   • 1769, Oxford Standard text, Bible (King James), Psalms 23:1

     The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

3. (figuratively) The pastor of a church; one who guides others in religion.
4. (poetic) A swain; a rustic male lover.

Synonyms

• (one who tends sheep): pastor (now rare), sheepherder

Coordinate terms

• shepherdess

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Verb

shepherd (third-person singular simple present shepherds, present participle shepherding, simple past and past participle shepherded)

1. (transitive) To watch over; to guide.
2. (transitive, Australian rules football) 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.

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