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cowman

noun

ˈkau̇-mən

Definition of cowman

as in cowboy

a hired hand who tends cattle or horses at a ranch or on the range an expert cowman who can round up the livestock in no time

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Recent Examples of cowman The picture-perfect cowman’s paradise of Stockyards City is true to its stripes—and nowhere is this more evident than in Cattlemen’s Steakhouse. — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 29 Mar. 2025 The reply of my friend and hunting companion was one of those quaint, rasping epithets which only a cowman can manage when everything has gone wrong. — Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 27 Feb. 2025 McGuinn’s handshake indicated that, indeed, the farmer and the cowman, or the country traditionalist and the Byrd-man, could be friends. — Chris Willman, Variety, 16 Jan. 2022 The crowd roared in wonder, then stood again, whooping like farmers and cowmen. — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 17 June 2019

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cowboy

Noun

Her father, William Preston Bowling, who plays the elderly cowboy with the oxygen tank, was with her.

— Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026
But Woody the cowboy doll and Buzz Lightyear the action figure are not among the group assembled here.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2026

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