Kilo Lingo

sheep

/ʃiːp/

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Translation

A farm animal with a thick woolly coat that eats grass in fields.

Word origin

From Old English sceap, the old Germanic word for a sheep.

Origin
Old English
Root
sceap

Grammar

Gender
Pluralsheepirregular

Examples

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"Sheep" is one woolly farm animal.

Ten grass .

"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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This word is part of lesson 12.