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 Definitions of Cowboy  [ˈkaʊˌbɔɪ]  

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Definition of 'Cowboy' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) cowboy
a man, usu. on horseback, who herds and tends cattle.

2.  cowboy
a reckless vehicle driver.

Etymology:  (1715–25)

Definition of 'Cowboy' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) cowboy, cowpuncher, puncher, cowman, cattleman, cowpoke, cowhand, cowherd
a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback

2. (noun) cowboy, rodeo rider
a performer who gives exhibitions of riding and roping and bulldogging

3. (noun) cowboy
someone who is reckless or irresponsible (especially in driving vehicles)


Definition of 'Cowboy' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) cowboy
sb who rides a horse and watches over cattle


Definition of 'Cowboy' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) Cowboy
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. (noun) Cowboy
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


Definitions of 'Cowboy' The New Hacker's Dictionary 

1.  Cowboy
[Sun, from William Gibson's cyberpunk SF] Synonym for hacker. It is reported that at Sun this word is often said with reverence.


Translation of 'Cowboy' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: in the United States, a man who looks after cattle on a ranch.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: veedrywer Arabic flag Arabic: راعي بَقَـر Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: каубой
Brazilian flag Brazilian: vaqueiro Czech flag Czech: kovboj, honák German flag German: der Cowboy
Danish flag Danish: cowboy Greek flag Greek: γελαδάρης Spanish flag Spanish: vaquero, cowboy (cine,
Estonian flag Estonian: kauboi Farsi flag Farsi: گاو چران Finnish flag Finnish: karjapaimen
French flag French: cow-boy Hebrew flag Hebrew: בּוֹקֵר Hindi flag Hindi: घुड़सवार गोपाल
Croatian flag Croatian: kauboj Hungarian flag Hungarian: lovas marhapásztor Indonesian flag Indonesian: koboi
Icelandic flag Icelandic: kúreki Italian flag Italian: cowboy, mandriano Japanese flag Japanese: カウボーイ
Korean flag Korean: 목동 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: kaubojus, raitas piemuo Latvian flag Latvian: kovbojs
Malay flag Malay: koboi Dutch flag Dutch: cowboy Norwegian flag Norwegian: cowboy, gjetergutt
Polish flag Polish: pastuch bydła Persian flag Persian: گاو چران Pashto flag Pashto: غوبه،ګوران
Portuguese flag Portuguese: vaqueiro Romanian flag Romanian: cowboy Russian flag Russian: ковбой
Slovak flag Slovak: kovboj Slovenian flag Slovenian: govedar Serbian flag Serbian: kauboj
Swedish flag Swedish: cowboy Thai flag Thai: โคบาล Turkish flag Turkish: kovboy
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 美國牛仔 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: ковбой Urdu flag Urdu: چرواها
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: cao bồi Chinese flag Chinese: 牧童

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