different between shepherd vs vigilante

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

Borrowed from Spanish vigilante (“watchman, guard”), from Latin vigilans. Doublet of vigilant.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /v?d???lænti/, /v?d???l??nte?/

Noun

vigilante (plural vigilantes)

1. A person who considers it their own responsibility to uphold the law in their neighborhood and often does so summarily and without legal jurisdiction. [from 19th c.]

Derived terms

• vigilantism
• digilante

Translations

Anagrams

• genitival

French

Adjective

vigilante

1. feminine singular of vigilant

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vigilans, vigilantem.

Verb

vigilante

1. present participle of vigilare

Adjective

vigilante (plural vigilanti)

1. vigilant, watchful, alert

   Synonyms: vigile, attento

Related terms

• vigilanza
• vigilare

Noun

vigilante m or f (plural vigilanti)

1. security guard
2. vigilante

Latin

Participle

vigilante

1. ablative masculine singular of vigil?ns
2. ablative feminine singular of vigil?ns
3. ablative neuter singular of vigil?ns

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vigilans, vigilantem.

Adjective

vigilante m or f (plural vigilantes, comparable)

1. vigilant; watchful; observant (alert and paying close attention)

Derived terms

• vigilantemente

Related terms

• vigilância
• vigilar

Noun

vigilante m, f (plural vigilantes)

1. a person whose job is to watch over something

Further reading

• “vigilante” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vigilans, vigilantem.

Adjective

vigilante (plural vigilantes)

1. watchful, alert, wakeful

Noun

vigilante m or f (plural vigilantes)

1. guard, watchman

   Synonym: guarda

Derived terms

Related terms

• vigilancia
• vigilar

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish vigilante

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bid?i?lante/

Noun

vigilante

1. vigilante
2. a person suspected to be involved in extrajudicial killings in the drug war in the Philippines from 2016.

Related terms

• salvage