Sheep Meaning and Definition
What is the definition Sheep? What is its meaning in the dictionary? Derivations, Synonyms, Example sentences, Words ending with Sheep, Words starting with Sheep, Related sentences, Antonyms, How to pronounce and more...
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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Spanish: Oveja
German: Schaf
French: Brebis
Italian: Pecora
Turkish: Koyun