- doyen
- forerunner
- guide
- lead
- darkness
- fog
- gloom
- mist
- puff
- smog
- smoke
- steam
- vapor
- veil
- billow
- dimness
- film
- fogginess
- frost
- haze
- haziness
- murk
- nebula
- obscurity
- overcast
- pother
- rack
- scud
- smother
- thunderhead
- brume
- mare’s tail
- nebulosity
- ol’ buttermilk sky
- pea soup
- woolpack
- bourgeois
- emulator
- follower
- traditionalist
- Babbit
- brick in a wall
- conventionalist
- one of the herd
- rubber stamp
- yes-person
- animals
- beasts
- cattle
- cows
- domestic
- flock
- fowl
- herd
- hogs
- horses
- livestock
- pigs
- swine
- farm animals
- apple-polisher
- assenter
- ass-kisser
- bootlicker
- brown-nose
- camp follower
- doormat
- fawner
- flatterer
- flunky
- groveler
- kowtower
- lackey
- minion
- pawn
- puppet
- stooge
- sycophant
- toady
- underling
- yes-man
- yes-woman
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Around 3,000 years ago a drought in central China drove Mongol herders a thousand miles north into the steppes of Khakassia, in Siberia, where they remained raising horses and sheep for centuries.
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A flock of weary sheep pattered along the road, barnward bound, heavy eyed and bleating softly.
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A little corral for the sheep, and a rough shed for the pony, and the home was complete: far the prettiest home they had ever had.
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WORDS RELATED TO SHEEP
- doyen
- forerunner
- guide
- lead
- sheep
- billow
- brume
- darkness
- dimness
- film
- fog
- fogginess
- frost
- gloom
- haze
- haziness
- mare’s tail
- mist
- murk
- nebula
- nebulosity
- obscurity
- ol’ buttermilk sky
- overcast
- pea soup
- pother
- puff
- rack
- scud
- sheep
- smog
- smoke
- smother
- steam
- thunderhead
- vapor
- veil
- woolpack
- Babbit
- bourgeois
- brick in a wall
- conventionalist
- emulator
- follower
- one of the herd
- rubber stamp
- sheep
- traditionalist
- yes-person
- animals
- beasts
- cattle
- cows
- domestic
- farm animals
- flock
- fowl
- herd
- hogs
- horses
- livestock
- pigs
- sheep
- swine
- apple-polisher
- ass-kisser
- assenter
- bootlicker
- brownnose
- camp follower
- doormat
- fawner
- flatterer
- flunky
- groveler
- kowtower
- lackey
- minion
- pawn
- puppet
- sheep
- stooge
- sycophant
- toady
- underling
- apple-polisher
- ass-kisser
- assenter
- bootlicker
- brown-nose
- camp follower
- doormat
- fawner
- flatterer
- flunky
- groveler
- kowtower
- lackey
- minion
- pawn
- puppet
- sheep
- stooge
- sycophant
- toady
- underling
- yes-man
- yes-woman
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What is another word for Sheep?
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ram
animal
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ewe
ram
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lamb
ram, mouton
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cattle
stock, animals raised on a farm
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livestock
stock, animals raised on a farm
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flock
animals raised on a farm
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stock
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mutton
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bellwether
ram
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horses
animals raised on a farm
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cows
animals raised on a farm
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fold
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wether
ram
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swine
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pigs
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follower
person in agreement
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conformist
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hogs
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farm animals
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bourgeois
person in agreement
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conventionalist
person in agreement
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gloom
mass of water particles in air
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vapor
mass of water particles in air
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darkness
mass of water particles in air
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fog
mass of water particles in air
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smoke
puff, gloom
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puff
mass of water particles in air, darkness
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smog
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mist
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veil
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Princeton’s WordNet
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sheepnoun
woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat
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sheepnoun
a timid defenseless simpleton who is readily preyed upon
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sheepnoun
a docile and vulnerable person who would rather follow than make an independent decision
«his students followed him like sheep»
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- Bovid
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sheepnoun
Synonyms:
Ovis, Ovis aries, (male) ram, buck, (female) ewe, (young) lamb, eanling, (castrated ram) wether, (leader of the flock) bellwether, hoggerel, hoggetAssociated words:
bleat, braxy, gid, mutton, flock, ovine, shepherd, shepherdess, cosset, raddle, yean, ean, lowbell, abigeat, sheepcote, fold
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List of paraphrases for «sheep»:
ovine, mouton, mutton, ewes, ewe, sheepmeat, lamb, sheeps, flock, flocks, rams
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Scott C. Holstad:
i’ve been reading poems by notable poets about cows * sheep * pigeons * fish * deer & the like & honestly it makes me ill. i write about what i know: big cities, street gangs, the homeless, food stamps, death
& suicide & i wonder who reads this boring crap, who gets inspired? I want it hard edged, baby, poems on razorblades cutting through skin, tendons, even bones, poems that make the blood flow & run deep in real rivers of life. -
Max Beerbohm:
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
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Oswen Corbel:
Maybe I should give up. … Sometimes I think I should go into the mountains and herd sheep, but this is what I know to do, what’s next? We had Hurricane Irma, we had COVID, we had the sargassum, and now I’m pretty scared of global warming.
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Northrop Frye:
The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.
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David Lamfrom:
People are walking off trails, bringing their dogs, people are trampling and destroying the things they want to preserve without knowing it. … People are camping where they want or showing up really early or late at certain watering holes so animals like bighorn sheep won’t come down to drink.
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| Phonetic Transcription : ʃip |
Top 10 synonyms for sheep
Other synonyms for the word sheep
- animals
- apple-polisher
- ass-kisser
- assenter
- Babbit
- beasts
- billow
- bootlicker
- bourgeois
- brick in a wall
- brownnose
- brume
- camp follower
- cattle
- conventionalist
- cows
- dimness
- domestic
- doormat
- doyen
- emulator
- farm animals
- fawner
- film
- flatterer
- flock
- flunky
- fogginess
- follower
- forerunner
- fowl
- frost
- groveler
- guide
- haze
- haziness
- herd
- hogs
- horses
- kowtower
- lackey
- lead
- livestock
- mare’s tail
- minion
- murk
- nebula
- nebulosity
- obscurity
- ol’ buttermilk sky
- one of the herd
- overcast
- pawn
- pea soup
- pigs
- pother
- puppet
- rack
- rubber stamp
- scud
- sheep
- smother
- stooge
- swine
- sycophant
- thunderhead
- toady
- traditionalist
- underling
- woolpack
- yes man
Définition of sheep
Origin :
- ruminant mammal, Old English sceap, scep, from West Germanic *skæpan (cf. Old Saxon scap, Old Frisian skep, Middle Low German schap, Middle Dutch scaep, Dutch schaap, Old High German scaf, German Schaf), of unknown origin. Not found in Scandinavian (cf. Danish faar «sheep») or Gothic (which uses lamb), and with no known cognates outside Germanic. The more usual Indo-European word for the animal is represented in English by ewe.
- The plural form was leveled with the singular in Old English, but Old Northumbrian had a plural scipo. Used since Old English as a type of timidity and figuratively of those under the guidance of God. The meaning «stupid, timid person» is attested from 1540s. The image of the wolf in sheep’s clothing was in Old English (from Matt. vii:15); that of separating the sheep from the goats is from Matt. xxv:33. To count sheep in a bid to induce sleep is recorded from 1854 but seems not to have been commonly written about until 1870s. It might simply be a type of a tedious activity, but an account of shepherd life from Australia from 1849 [«Sidney’s Emigrant’s Journal»] describes the night-shepherd («hut-keeper») taking a count of the sheep regularly at the end of his shift to protect against being answerable for any animals later lost or killed.
- Sheep’s eyes «loving looks» is attested from 1520s (cf. West Frisian skiepseach, Dutch schaapsoog, German Schafsauge). A sheep-biter was «a dog that worries sheep» (1540s); «a mutton-monger» (1590s); and «a whore-monger» (1610s, i.e. one who «chases mutton»); hence Shakespeare’s sheep-biting «thieving, sneaky.»
- As in stock : noun animals raised on a farm
- As in yes man : noun someone following orders without question
- As in bellwether : noun leader
- As in cloud : noun mass of water particles in air
- As in conformist : noun person in agreement
Example sentences :
- I have in mind one old chap who used to herd the sheep on my uncle’s farm.
- Extract from : « Ballads of a Bohemian » by Robert W. Service
- What sheep he did not kill for the use of his men, he ordered to be bayoneted.
- Extract from : « A Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion » by William Dobein James
- The first picture that attracted our admiration was a «Sheep scene,» by Lambdin.
- Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 7, May 14, 1870 » by Various
- Wolves or watch-dogs, it was hard to say from which the sheep had most to fear.
- Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
- Extract from : « An Explanation of Luther’s Small Catechism » by Joseph Stump
- All the sales of sheep and lambs are by the «clad score» which contains twenty-one.
- Extract from : « Camps, Quarters and Casual Places » by Archibald Forbes
- He has at least 30,000 sheep on his vast tracks of moorland on the braes of Lochaber.
- Extract from : « Camps, Quarters and Casual Places » by Archibald Forbes
- The sheep were to be washed and sheared, too, and the awkward, weak-kneed calves to be fed.
- Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
- But let us return to our sheep—which means the sea-lions of the Cliff House.
- Extract from : « American Notes » by Rudyard Kipling
- There’s no sense to it, any way,—sixteen sheep stood him in two dollars apiece.
- Extract from : « Tip Lewis and His Lamp » by Pansy
Antonyms for sheep
- brightness
- cognizance
- fact
- light
- truth
- understanding
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What is another word for sheep?
235 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ʃˈiːp], [ ʃˈiːp], [ ʃ_ˈiː_p]
Related words: sheep farming, sheep protector, sheep ranch, sheepdog, wool shearing, sheep farming uk, shepherding courses
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n.
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- broiler,
- broiler chicken,
- fryer,
- fowl,
- cattle,
- chicken,
- boar,
- frier,
- friesian.
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- emulate,
- take your cue from someone,
- follow the crowd/go with the crowd,
- mimic,
- follow,
- imitate,
- copy,
- do likewise,
- follow in someone’s footsteps.
• animal (noun)
- sheep.
• bellwether (noun)
- guide,
- lead,
- forerunner.
• cloud (noun)
- fogginess,
- mist,
- murk,
- haziness,
- fog,
- smoke,
- puff,
- gloom,
- film,
- veil,
- rack,
- Nebulosity,
- Woolpack,
- billow,
- Thunderhead,
- haze,
- Brume,
- vapor,
- smother,
- frost,
- mare’s tail,
- overcast,
- ol’ buttermilk sky,
- darkness,
- steam,
- smog,
- scud,
- nebula,
- dimness,
- pea soup,
- obscurity,
- pother,
- thunderheads.
• conformist (noun)
- bourgeois,
- rubber stamp,
- babbit,
- follower,
- traditionalist.
• lamb (noun)
- cretan,
- Scottish blackface,
- galway,
- Wallachian,
- ile-de-france,
- Shropshire,
- merino,
- iceland,
- welsh,
- big horn,
- mouflon,
- mutton,
- tup,
- mountain,
- lincoln,
- Dorset,
- Rocky Mountain,
- rambouillet,
- Suffolk,
- Corriedale,
- animal,
- argali,
- cheviot,
- Herny,
- oxford,
- broadtailed,
- jacob,
- Southdown,
- ewe,
- cotswold,
- astrakhan,
- Wensleydale,
- Romney,
- Hampshire Down,
- madras,
- Tartary.
• mammals (noun)
- Hippopotami,
- Skunks,
- rabbits,
- giraffes,
- oxen,
- Horses,
- Wolves,
- Dromedaries,
- camels,
- mules,
- Ferrets,
- Mongooses,
- coyotes,
- polecats,
- Lemmings,
- Chipmunks,
- Ermines,
- jaguars,
- Pigs,
- Marmots,
- rhinoceroses,
- porcupines,
- elks,
- Kangaroos,
- sables,
- shrews,
- gnus,
- bobcats,
- Otters,
- Alpacas,
- possums,
- stoats,
- Antelopes,
- ocelots,
- yaks,
- Beavers,
- Wallabies,
- Moles,
- hedgehogs,
- echidnas,
- pumas,
- Foxes,
- Llamas,
- leopards,
- arctic foxes,
- stags,
- Tigers,
- cows,
- dogs,
- dingoes,
- panthers,
- Opossums,
- Cheetahs,
- elephants,
- Ibexes,
- hares,
- Donkeys,
- Bears,
- Hyenas,
- gazelles,
- hogs,
- pandas,
- burros,
- weasels,
- jackals,
- minks,
- Rats,
- cougars,
- platypuses,
- Lions,
- Cavies,
- wombats,
- koalas,
- reindeers,
- raccoons,
- Chinchillas,
- Mice,
- Gophers,
- Squirrels,
- Buffaloes,
- Goats,
- Asses,
- camelopards,
- Zebras,
- lynxes,
- cats,
- Sloths,
- Hamsters.
• Other relevant words: (noun)
- doormat,
- cloud,
- brick wall,
- bellwether,
- bootlicker,
- brick in a wall,
- stock,
- fawner,
- doormats,
- Farm Animals,
- Assenter,
- doyen,
- yes man,
- conformist,
- fawners,
- grovelers,
- farm animal,
- yes-man,
- groveler,
- doyens,
- one of the herd,
- emulator,
- domestics,
- emulators,
- kowtower,
- livestock,
- conventionalists,
- ass-kisser,
- Conventionalist,
- assenters.
• stock (noun)
- flock,
- beasts,
- herd,
- domestic,
- Animals,
- swine.
• yes man (noun)
- flunky,
- sycophant,
- pawn,
- underling,
- camp follower,
- puppet,
- brownnose,
- toady,
- stooge,
- flatterer,
- apple-polisher,
- lackey,
- minion.
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Other synonyms:
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- lamb.
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- ram.
How to use «Sheep» in context?
Sheep are adorable animals that are usually kept as livestock, including for their wool. Sheep are ruminants, meaning they have four-chamber stomachs that allow them to digest complex plant material.
Paraphrases for Sheep:
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Reverse Entailment
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Proper noun, singular
sheepmeat.
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Noun, plural
rams, EWES.
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Noun, singular or mass
sheepmeat.
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Proper noun, singular
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Independent
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Noun, plural
flocks, bucks.
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Noun, singular or mass
herd, herdsmen.
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Noun, plural
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Other Related
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Adjective
mutton, Ovine.
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Proper noun, singular
mutton, Ovine, LAMBS.
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Noun, plural
Goats, LAMBS.
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Noun, singular or mass
ewe, flock, goat, lamb, livestock, mutton, Ovine.
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Adjective
Homophones for Sheep:
- scoop up, squib, scaup, spa, sebe, Soph, swoop up, scab, squash pie, skiff, scuff, sb, shiv, Sufi, show up, soapy, successive, subway, spiff, shabu, ship, scabby, sick pay, sop, scoff, scup, sepia, swab, squab, s-shape, shape, sofia, sweep off, shove, sub, sickbay, shabby, sihasapa, scuba, spiff up, sappy, save, swop, size up, skivvy, seascape, soak up, swap, soup up, SPF, ski cap, sex up, scope, spiv, swbw, suv, sack up, sip, sea pea, sea chub, shf, shoe-shop, soupy, suva, swipe, spiffy, spue, sea squab, shape-up, shave, sspe, spew, skycap, S.U.V., soup, shock wave, shape up, skive, sbe, sky wave, sob, sweep, sea poppy, SEB, seep, swob, shivah, suck up, shakeup, squabby, Sep 11, swoop, savvy, sick of, squeeze by, soppy, squeak by, sahib, shaggy cap, scoop, show-off, sbw, shack up, save up, sweep up, sofa, spoof, sup, suave, sweep away, she-bop, shoe shop, spy, spay, soave, savoy, succuba, shiva, SBA, sieve, segovia, shake up, sassaby, sop up, sap, shop boy, sif, siva, shish kebab, show off, skep, safe, squiffy, skew-whiff, shake off, sep, scipio, shoo off, shipway, skip, sib, soap, saba, shove off, scape, skibob, shake-up, sappho, syph, sheaf, sabah, shibah, shop.
Holonyms for Sheep:
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n.
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animal
flock, Genus Ovis, ovis, fold, herd.
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animal
Hyponym for Sheep:
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n.
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animal
bovid.
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person
simple, simpleton, follower.
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animal
Meronym for Sheep:
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n.
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animal
withers, trotter.
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animal
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black sheep
bad egg (old-fashioned informal) disgrace, dropout, ne’er-do-well, outcast, prodigal, renegade, reprobate, wastrel
English Collins Dictionary — English synonyms & Thesaurus 
sheep
( sheep plural )
1 n-count A sheep is a farm animal which is covered with thick curly hair called wool. Sheep are kept for their wool or for their meat.
…grassland on which a flock of sheep were grazing.
2 n-plural If you say that a group of people are like sheep, you disapprove of them because if one person does something, all the others copy that person.
usu like N (disapproval)
black sheep
If you describe someone as theblack sheepof their family or of a group that they are a member of, you mean that they are considered bad or worthless by other people in that family or group. n-count usu sing, oft the N of n (disapproval)
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