lamb
[ lam ]
/ læm /
noun
a young sheep.
the meat of a young sheep.
a person who is gentle, meek, innocent, etc.: Their little daughter is such a lamb.
a person who is easily cheated or outsmarted, especially an inexperienced speculator.
the Lamb,
Christ.
verb (used without object)
to give birth to a lamb.
Origin of lamb
before 900; Middle English, Old English; cognate with Dutch
lam, German
Lamm, Old Norse, Gothic
lamb; akin to Greek
élaphos deer. See
elk
WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH lamb
lam lambWords nearby lamb
lamartine,
lamas,
lamasery,
lamaze,
lamaze method,
lamb,
lamb down,
lamb of god,
lamb shift,
lamb syndrome,
lamb's ears
Example sentences from the Web for lambing
British Dictionary definitions for lambing (1 of 4)
lambing
/ (ˈlæmɪŋ) /
noun
- the birth of lambs
- (as modifier)lambing time
the shepherd's work of tending the ewes and newborn lambs at this time
British Dictionary definitions for lambing (2 of 4)
lamb
/ (læm) /
noun
verb
See also
lamb down
Derived forms of lamb
lamblike, adjectiveWord Origin for lamb
Old English
lamb, from Germanic; compare German
Lamm, Old High German and Old Norse
lamb
British Dictionary definitions for lambing (3 of 4)
Lamb
1
/ (læm) /
noun
the Lamb
a title given to Christ in the New Testament
British Dictionary definitions for lambing (4 of 4)
Lamb
2
/ (læm) /
noun
Charles, pen name Elia. 1775–1834, English essayist and critic. He collaborated with his sister Mary on Tales from Shakespeare (1807). His other works include Specimens of English Dramatic Poets (1808) and the largely autobiographical essays collected in Essays of Elia (1823; 1833)
William. See (2nd Viscount) Melbourne 2
Willis Eugene. 1913–2008, US physicist. He detected the small difference in energy between two states of the hydrogen atom (Lamb shift). Nobel prize for physics 1955
Idioms and Phrases with lambing
lamb
see hanged for a sheep (as a lamb); in two shakes (of a lamb's tail); like a lamb to the slaughter.