drover
/ˈdɹoʊ.vəɹ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.25 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who drives animals (which are on foot or on the hoof, walking to some destination), especially cattle or sheep, and especially over long distances.
Example Sentences
- "In the present day, we take it for granted that livestock are transported by truck or rail, but in past centuries, they were driven by drovers, and a herd might be met on any street, road, or highway."
- "Why, that's spoken like an honest drovier: so they sell bullocks."
- "Daily driven / (Wife as drover) / Ill you've thriven-- / Ne'er in clover."
- "Little is the modern-day Buchanon. In 2013 he oversaw the Brinkworth drive, taking 20,000 cattle owned by South Australian pastoralist Tom Brinkworth from western Queensland to southern NSW, separating them into smaller mobs and employing contract drovers to assist."
Etymology
Etymology tree English drove Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English drover From drove + -er.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈdɹoʊ.vəɹ/
- British English: /ˈdɹəʊ.və/
Inflected Forms
drovers (plural)
drovier (alternative)