Sheep Meaning and Definition


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Sheep meaning

Word: Sheep

How to pronounce: ʃiːp

Noun

Definitions:

1. A domesticated ruminant animal with a thick woolly coat and (typically only in the male) curving horns. It is kept in flocks for its wool or meat, and is proverbial for its tendency to follow others in the flock.

Example sentences: "Chickens and turkeys were kept both for their eggs and meat just as sheep provided wool and meat."

2. A person who is too easily influenced or led.

Example sentences: "The party members had become sheep, and she refused to be taken in"

3. A person regarded as a protected follower of God.

Example sentences: "And amid all this we are to preach the gospel of salvation, gathering in the lost sheep of Christ till the church is complete."


Synonyms:

lamb

ewe

wether

mutton

ovine


Derivations:

sheepskin

sheepish


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Sheep in Other Languages...

Spanish: Oveja

German: Schaf

French: Brebis

Italian: Pecora

Turkish: Koyun


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