"shepherdess" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: shepherdesses [plural], shepherd [masculine]
Etymology: From Middle English scheperdesse, shepperdesse; equivalent to shepherd + -ess. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|scheperdesse}} Middle English scheperdesse, {{m|enm|shepperdesse}} shepperdesse, {{suffix|en|shepherd|ess}} shepherd + -ess Head templates: {{head|en|noun|plural|shepherdesses|masculine|shepherd}} shepherdess (plural shepherdesses, masculine shepherd)
  1. A female shepherd. Categories (topical): Occupations, People Synonyms (female shepherd): pastoress, pastrix [rare] Translations (female shepherd): bareshë [feminine] (Albanian), blegë [feminine] (Albanian), pastýřka [feminine] (Czech), schapenhoedster [feminine] (Dutch), herderin [feminine] (Dutch), herderinnetje [diminutive, neuter] (Dutch), ŝafistino (Esperanto), bergère [feminine] (French), pastourelle [diminutive, feminine, literary] (French), Hirtin [feminine] (German), Schäferin [feminine] (German), Schafhirtin [feminine] (German), ποιμενίδα (poimenída) [feminine] (Greek), banaoire [masculine] (Irish), bantréadaí [masculine] (Irish), gane (Latvian), овчарка (ovčarka) [masculine] (Macedonian), pasterka [feminine] (Polish), pastuszka [feminine] (Polish), pastora [feminine] (Portuguese), ciobăniță [feminine] (Romanian), păstoriță [feminine] (Romanian), пасту́шка (pastúška) [feminine] (Russian), jipigaledan [feminine] (Volapük), פּאַסטושקע (pastushke) [feminine] (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-shepherdess-en-noun--pRBlFBc Disambiguation of Occupations: 79 21 Disambiguation of People: 79 21 Disambiguation of 'female shepherd': 99 1 Disambiguation of 'female shepherd': 99 1
  2. A large and deep armchair with a cushion. Categories (topical): Chairs
    Sense id: en-shepherdess-en-noun-nX1wU8w9 Disambiguation of Chairs: 15 85 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ess Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 38 62 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 20 80 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ess: 38 62
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: shepherdess pie

Inflected forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.