SHEEP


Meaning of SHEEP in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ʃi:p ]

( sheep)

1.

A sheep is a farm animal which is covered with thick curly hair called wool. Sheep are kept for their wool or for their meat.

...grassland on which a flock of sheep were grazing.

N-COUNT

2.

If you say that a group of people are like sheep , you disapprove of them because if one person does something, all the others copy that person.

N-PLURAL : usu like N [ disapproval ]

3.

see also black sheep

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