Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun shepard

2 senses of shepard

Sense 1
Shepard, Sam Shepard -- (United States author of surrealistic allegorical plays (born in 1943))
       INSTANCE OF=> dramatist, playwright -- (someone who writes plays)

Sense 2
Shepard, Alan Shepard, Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. -- (astronaut who made the first United States' suborbital rocket-powered flight in 1961 (1923-1998))
       INSTANCE OF=> astronaut, spaceman, cosmonaut -- (a person trained to travel in a spacecraft; "the Russians called their astronauts cosmonauts")