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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