English Explanatory Dictionary

lamb

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A young sheep.
  2. A young goat; a kid.
  3. The flesh of a lamb used as food; (sometimes loosely) the flesh of a sheep of any age used as food.
  4. A person who is meek, docile, and easily led.
  5. Lambskin.
  6. A simple, unsophisticated person.
  7. One who ignorantly speculates on the stock exchange and is victimized.
  8. A fan of American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer Mariah Carey (born 1969).
verb
  1. Of a sheep, to give birth.
  2. To assist (sheep) to give birth.
name
  1. A surname from Middle English.
  2. An unincorporated community in Craig Township, Switzerland County, Indiana, United States.
  3. An extinct town in Marion County, Missouri, United States.
  4. An islet (small island) in the Firth of Forth, East Lothian council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT5386).
name
  1. Jesus; the Lamb of God
  2. The constellation and zodiacal sign Aries.
noun
  1. Alternative letter-case form of lamb (“a fan of Mariah Carey”).
noun
  1. Acronym of lentigines, atrial myxomas, mucocutaneous myxomas, and blue naevi.

Pronunciation

/læm/ [leəm] en-us-lamb.ogg

Word forms

lamb lambs lamber lambren lambing lambed the Lamb

Etymology

From Middle English lamb, from Old English lamb, from Proto-West Germanic *lamb, from Proto-Germanic *lambaz, probably from Proto-Indo-European *h₁l̥h₁onbʰos, enlargement of *h₁elh₁én, ultimately from *h₁el-. See also Dutch lam, German Lamm, Bavarian Lamperl, Danish lam, Swedish lamm, Finnish lammas, Scottish Gaelic lon (“elk”), Ancient Greek ἔλαφος (élaphos, “red deer”). More at elk.

Synonyms

sheepling sheep Paschal Lamb Lamb of God Agnus Dei

Related words

Lamb

Derived words

baa-lamb bar-lamb beaver lamb ewe lamb gentle as a lamb house lamb in-lamb in lamb in like a lion, out like a lamb innocent as a lamb in two shakes of a lamb's tail lamb-ale lambchop lamb down lamber Lambeth lambfold lamb fries lambhood lambie lambiness lambing lambing season lambish lambkill lambkin lambless lamblike lambling lamb of Tartary lamb pie lamb's bread lamb's cress lamb's ears lambsfoot lamb's fries lambskin lamb's lettuce lambsquarters lamb's quarters lamb's tongue lamb succory lambswool lamb to the slaughter like a lamb to the slaughter come like a lamb to the slaughter as a lamb to the slaughter lamburger lamby March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb Mongolian lamb mutton dressed as lamb mutton dressed up as lamb one may as well hang for a sheep as a lamb Paschal Lamb Persian lamb sacrificial lamb Scythian lamb skin the lamb spider lamb syndrome
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