cowboy
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Noun (3)cowboys
- someone who is reckless or irresponsible (especially in driving vehicles)Type of adventurer, venturer
- a male hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horsebackSynonyms: cowmancattlemanType of man, cowpuncher
- a male performer who gives exhibitions of riding and roping and bulldoggingType of rodeo rider, man
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Translations
Noun person who tends cattle
- Spanish
- vaquero
- French
- cow-boy
- German
- Cowboy
- Italian
- mandriano
- Portuguese
- caubói
- Turkish
- kovboy
- Russian
- ковбо́й kovbój
- Arabic
- بَقّار baqqār
- Chinese
- 牧人 mùrén
- Japanese
- カウボーイ kaubōi
23 more languages
- Dutch
- cowboy
- Polish
- kowboj
- Swedish
- cowboy
- Greek
- αγελαδάρης ageladáris
- Korean
- 목자 mokja
- Vietnamese
- cao bồi
- Hungarian
- cowboy
- Portuguese (PT)
- caubói
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 牧人 mùrén
- Albanian
- lopçar
- Catalan
- vaquer
- Czech
- kovboj
- Danish
- cowboy
- Esperanto
- vakero
- Finnish
- karjapaimen
- Georgian
- კოვბოი ḳovboi
- Hebrew
- בּוֹקֵר boqér
- Icelandic
- kúreki
- Norwegian
- cowboy
- Romanian
- văcar
- Scottish Gaelic
- gille-cruidh
- Serbo-Croatian
- kauboj
- Welsh
- cowboi
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
1. A cattle herder; a drover; specifically, one of an adventurous class of herders and drovers on the plains of the Western and Southwestern United States.
2. One of the marauders who, in the Revolutionary War infested the neutral ground between the American and British lines, and committed depredations on the Americans.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
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