English noun: Shepard | |||
1. | Shepard (person) United States author of surrealistic allegorical plays (born in 1943) | ||
Synonyms | Sam Shepard | ||
Instance hypernym | dramatist, playwright | ||
2. | Shepard (person) astronaut who made the first United States' suborbital rocket-powered flight in 1961 (1923-1998) | ||
Synonyms | Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr., Alan Shepard | ||
Instance hypernym | astronaut, cosmonaut, spaceman | ||