different between shepherd vs bodyguard

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

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

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.

Translations

English

Etymology

body +? guard

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?di???d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?b??di????d/

Noun

bodyguard (plural bodyguards)

1. A person or group of persons, often armed, responsible for protecting an individual.

Translations

Verb

bodyguard (third-person singular simple present bodyguards, present participle bodyguarding, simple past and past participle bodyguarded)

1. (transitive) To act as bodyguard for (someone); figuratively, to protect.
   • 2005, Christopher Hitchens, ‘Burned Out’, Slate, Mar 7 2005:

     The same report, on a news page and not bodyguarded by any news analysis warning, goes on to say that repeated discoveries of cheating and covert activity mean that the credibility of Iran has been harmed.

Romanian

Alternative forms

• bodigard

Etymology

Borrowed from English bodyguard.

Noun

bodyguard m (plural bodyguarzi)

1. bodyguard

Declension

Synonyms

• gard? de corp
• goril? (figurative, derogatory)

References

• bodyguard in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)