SHEPPARD

Date "SHEPPARD" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references)

"SHEPPARD" is a common misspelling or typo for: Shepard.

Specialty Definition: SHEPPARD

Domain	Definition
Literature	Sheppard (Jack). Son of a carpenter in Smithfield, noted for his two escapes from Newgate in 1724. He was hanged at Tyburn the same year. (1701-1724.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top

Synonyms within Context: SHEPPARD

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Thief	Burglar, housebreaker; cracksman, magsman; Bill Sikes, Jack Sheppard, Jonathan Wild.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Top

Crosswords: SHEPPARD

Specialty definitions using "SHEPPARD": Chevalier du Brouillard ♦ Hempen Widow. (references)

Top

Modern Usage: SHEPPARD

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Hey, Sheppard. Guess what I just found in a meat locker (Outland; writing credit: Peter Hyams)
Movie/TV Titles	Free Press vs. Trial by Jury: The Sheppard Case (1969) The Hairbreadth Escape of Jack Sheppard (1900) Guilty or Innocent: The Sam Sheppard Murder Case (1975)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top

Commercial Usage: SHEPPARD

Domain	Title
Books	Mockery of Justice: The True Story of the Sheppard Murder Case (reference) Oliver Sheppard (1865-1941: Symbolist Sculptor of the Irish Cultural Revival (reference) 'Tight and Toned': Judi Sheppard Missett's Jazzercise (Better Body 15 Minute Workout Series) (reference) The Wrong Man: The Final Verdict on the Dr. Sam Sheppard Murder Case (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top

Image Slideshow: SHEPPARD

Top

Photo Album: SHEPPARD

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Entomologist Steve Sheppard prepares an agarose gel to be used in separating honey bee DNA fragments. Photo by Scott Bauer. Credit: USDA ARS News.		U.S. Army Air Forces. Regional Hospital, Sheppard Field, Wichita Falls, Texas : Aerial view. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	[Alcoholism: The Drunkard's Progress] / Drawn by W.L. Sheppard. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Selling Christmas greens--a scene in Richmond, Virginia / drawn by W.L. Sheppard. ; W.L.S. Credit: Library of Congress.
	The Christmas dinner safe. "Done cotch him!" / drawn by W.L. Sheppard. Credit: Library of Congress.		Prize fight, Tom Sayers vs John C. Heenan, Farnborough, England, 1860 / Arthur Sheppard. Credit: Library of Congress.
	A political discussion / W.L. Sheppard, del. Credit: Library of Congress.		Portrait of Pocahontas, from painting by Wm. Sheppard. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Buddy Sheppard and his father, part-time agricultural workers in Bridgetown, New Jersey, raking junk pile for old metal and bottles to sell. During the off-seasons these people must find all manner of strange occupations to round out an inadequate relief. Credit: Library of Congress.		Telegrams. 152 page telegram received by Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Top

Digital Photo Gallery: SHEPPARD

"Dog" by Luis Alves
Commentary: "This is Mike, my dog. He is a Portuguese Sheppard Dog from Serra D'Aires, a mountain in the center of the country. --------------------------- Notice: You can use this image, but please send me an e-mail if you use it, I really like to know when and wh"

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

Top

Familiar Quotations: SHEPPARD

Author	Quotation
Senator Morris Sheppard	A nation that can not preserve itself ought to die, and it will die -- die in the grasp of the evils it is too feeble to overthrow.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Top

Usage Frequency: SHEPPARD

"SHEPPARD" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SHEPPARD" is used about 146 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	100%	146	26,107

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Top

Name Usage Frequency: SHEPPARD

The following table summarizes the usage of "SHEPPARD" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Sheppard	Last name	17,000	710
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Top

Expressions: SHEPPARD

Expressions using "SHEPPARD": Jack Sheppard ♦ Sheppard Afb. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top

Frequency of Internet Keywords: SHEPPARD

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
sheppard afb	188	german sheppard dog	13
sheppard air force base	168	sheppard pratt hospital	13
sheppard afb tx	99	breeders german sheppard	12
sheppard	72	german sheppard training	12
kenny sheppard wayne	63	tg sheppard	12
matthew sheppard	61	german rescue sheppard	12
mullin sheppard	56	library memorial sheppard	11
sheppard pratt	54	kay sheppard	11
german sheppard	48	aubrey family linda rebecca richard sheppard	11
delia sheppard	47	sheppard afb texas	11
sam sheppard	35	australia sheppard	10
australian sheppard	34	center sheppard	10
chris sheppard	32	sheppard mullin richter hampton	10
sheppard smith	29	randolph sheppard act	10
cybil sheppard	26	kenny lyrics sheppard wayne	10
dax sheppard	20	cybill sheppard	10
german puppy sheppard	18	sheppard t.g	9
mathew sheppard	15	sheppard and greene	9
t g sheppard	14	kate sheppard	9
dr sam sheppard	13	jeff sheppard	8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top

Misspellings: SHEPPARD

Misspellings
	"SHEPPARD" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Heppard, sheepard, Sheppeard, shepperd. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Top

Anagrams: SHEPPARD

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-p-p-r-s"
	-1 letter: perhaps, phrased, sharped.
	-2 letters: dapper, dasher, drapes, happed, harped, hasped, padres, papers, parsed, pashed, phased, phrase, raphes, rapped, rasped, sapped, sapper, seraph, shader, shaped, shaper, shared, sherpa, spader, spared, spread.
	-3 letters: apers, apres, ashed, asper, dares, dears, deash, drape, ephas, hades, hards, hared, hares, harps, heads, heaps, heard, hears, herds, padre, paper, pards.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-h-p-p-r-s"
	+1 letter: preshaped.
	+2 letters: apprehends.
	+3 letters: copperheads, paraphrased, transhipped.
	+4 letters: handicappers, misapprehend, prepurchased, sharecropped, transshipped.
	+5 letters: apostrophised, apostrophized, misapprehends, paedomorphism, pseudepigraph.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.