Sheep ʃiːp Grazing Lost Noun Bre Flock Fields

• a flock of sheep
• sheep were grazing in the fields.
• he sees it as his duty to take care of the lost sheep of the world.
• it’s nearly the sheep’s lambing time.

sheep

1. an animal with a thick coat, kept on farms for its meat (called mutton or lamb ) or its wool
• a flock of sheep
• Sheep were grazing in the fields.
2. to imagine that sheep are jumping over a fence and to count them, as a way of getting to sleep
3. if people behave like sheep, they all do what the others are doing, without thinking for themselves
• See related entries: Farm animals
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4. if you are going to be punished for doing something wrong, whether it is a big or small thing, you may as well do the big thing
5. to distinguish people who are good at something, intelligent, etc. from those who are not
• See related entries: Farm animals
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/farm_animals/sheep_1
6. a person who seems to be friendly or harmless but is really an enemy

Extra Examples

• He sees it as his duty to take care of the lost sheep of the world.
• It’s nearly the sheep’s lambing time.
• My grandfather used to raise sheep in Australia.
• The dogs herded the sheep into the pen.
• There were a lot of sheep grazing high up on the mountain.
• a 4 000-acre sheep station in New South Wales
• the doleful cries of lost sheep

Word Origin

• Old English scēp, scǣp, scēap, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch schaap and German Schaf.