What's the difference between goatherd and herder?

Goatherd


Definition:

  • (n.) One who tends goats.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Just how involved is the UK in leaving the poisoned fruits of war scattered among the farmers and goatherds of impoverished Yemen?

Herder


Definition:

  • (n.) A herdsman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The source and nature of the ethnography of the important eighteenth century thinker Johann Gottfried Herder can in large part be understood through his relationship to his own society and especially through his part in the German cultural nationalist movement of the day.
  • (2) Dr Carol Kerven counts the human cost: goat herders in Inner Mongolia are shortchanged, selling their goat hair for as little as $2.30 a kilo.
  • (3) The Street View project takes viewers into the heart of the Sagarmatha national park, home to the world’s highest mountain, where icy blue rivers run below snow-capped peaks, monks play traditional music and yak-herders navigate precipitous stone-strewn trails.
  • (4) The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of frostbite among reindeer herders and to clarify the co-factors that may relate to these injuries.
  • (5) It paves the way for more effective control of trypanosomiasis, which will be good news for millions of herders and farmers in sub-Saharan Africa ," said Kostas Bourtzis, from a joint body of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which sequenced the genome in a 10-year multimillion-dollar effort.
  • (6) Anatomists may take an especial interest in the letters No 1903 to HERDER and No 1904 to CHARLOTTE v. STEIN (both dated the March 27, 1784) which demonstrate the discoverer's mirth in finding out the human os intermaxillare.
  • (7) The horrific violence in Darfur, Sudan, for example, followed decades of strained relations between nomadic herders and farmers, coinciding with a sustained drop in rainfall from the 1970s onward.
  • (8) A former cattle herder, freedom fighter and Robben Island prisoner, 72-year-old Zuma has proved himself the great survivor of post-apartheid politics.
  • (9) An analysis of variance showed that alcohol intake was significantly related to age, marital status, region and being of Lappish origin, but not to being a full-time reindeer herder.
  • (10) The dam will end the river's natural flood cycle, which herders and farmers have relied on for centuries, and reduce the water level in Lake Turkana, the organisation says.
  • (11) October 22 2002 Nine of the internet's 13 "root DNS" servers are disabled in a massive attack by a bot herder advertising his services.
  • (12) In houses, courtyards, streets, fields used to graze livestock, around springs for water, and even, says one goat herder, “hanging off the trees”.
  • (13) Five months of fighting in the newly-created nation have undermined its food security, leaving farmers unable to sow and harvest their crops, fishermen barred from rivers and waterways, and herders prevented from migrating between grazing areas.
  • (14) But the reindeer herder, who is not able to read the documents, said company representatives and others had pressured him and others in the community to sign the agreements.
  • (15) Lone Survivor, the highest grossing war film of this era, portrays Navy Seals so adept at killing the Taliban that it seems their only weakness is mercy on goat-herders.
  • (16) Jonathan on Sunday condemned other recent attacks: Friday's bombing of a hotel that local reports identified as a brothel in the north-east state of Bauchi, and sectarian killings of farmers, who are mainly Christian, allegedly by Fulani Muslim herders in northern Kaduna state.
  • (17) Among subjects with abundant shooting (reindeer herders) the average inferiority of the left ear was close to the average of all male subjects.
  • (18) To determine the prevalence of allergic symptoms among reindeer herders clinical examinations and skin prick tests (SPT) with nine inhalant allergens were performed in 211 randomly selected men from 21 to 69 (mean 45) years.
  • (19) In conclusion these results show that it is possible to develop measures preventing accidents and to improve the safety in reindeer herders' work.
  • (20) December We rounded the year off in traditional style, with a visit to Sápmi, Swedish Lapland, and an insight into the life of a reindeer herder, Anna-Maria Fjellström, who documents her family’s modern nomadic lifestyle on Instagram.