SHEPARD

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• SHEPARD (noun)
  The noun SHEPARD has 2 senses:

1. United States author of surrealistic allegorical plays (born in 1943)

2. astronaut who made the first United States' suborbital rocket-powered flight in 1961 (1923-1998)

  Familiarity information: SHEPARD used as a noun is rare.

• SHEPARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States author of surrealistic allegorical plays (born in 1943)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Sam Shepard; Shepard

Instance hypernyms:

dramatist; playwright (someone who writes plays)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Astronaut who made the first United States' suborbital rocket-powered flight in 1961 (1923-1998)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr.; Alan Shepard; Shepard

Instance hypernyms:

astronaut; cosmonaut; spaceman (a person trained to travel in a spacecraft)