Meaning
A farm animal with a thick woolly coat that eats grass in fields.
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Word origin
From Old English sceap, the old Germanic word for a sheep.
- Origin
- Old English
- Root
- sceap
Grammar
Examples
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"Sheep" is one woolly farm animal.
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"Sheep" stays the same for one or many, so here it means more than one.
wool.
Here "sheep" means the whole group of animals.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 26, lesson 4: sheep, practically, steel and 7 more words.