LAMB

Pronunciation (US):

• LAMB (noun)
  The noun LAMB has 5 senses:

1. young sheep
2. English essayist (1775-1834)
3. a person easily deceived or cheated (especially in financial matters)
4. a sweet innocent mild-mannered person (especially a child)
5. the flesh of a young domestic sheep eaten as food

  Familiarity information: LAMB used as a noun is common.

• LAMB (verb)
  The verb LAMB has 1 sense:

1. give birth to a lamb

  Familiarity information: LAMB used as a verb is very rare.

• LAMB (noun)

Meaning:

Young sheep

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("lamb" is a kind of...):

young mammal (any immature mammal)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lamb"):

lambkin (a very young lamb)

baa-lamb (child's word for a sheep or lamb)

hog; hogg; hogget (a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared)

teg (two-year-old sheep)

Persian lamb (a karakul lamb)

Holonyms ("lamb" is a member of...):

genus Ovis; Ovis (sheep)

Meaning:

English essayist (1775-1834)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Charles Lamb; Elia; Lamb

Instance hypernyms:

essayist; litterateur (a writer of literary works)

Meaning:

A person easily deceived or cheated (especially in financial matters)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("lamb" is a kind of...):

dupe; victim (a person who is tricked or swindled)

Meaning:

A sweet innocent mild-mannered person (especially a child)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

dear; lamb

Hypernyms ("lamb" is a kind of...):

inexperienced person; innocent (a person who lacks knowledge of evil)

Meaning:

The flesh of a young domestic sheep eaten as food

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("lamb" is a kind of...):

meat (the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food)

Meronyms (parts of "lamb"):

cut of lamb (piece of a lamb)

loin of lamb (meat from a loin of lamb)

Holonyms ("lamb" is a part of...):

domestic sheep; Ovis aries (any of various breeds raised for wool or edible meat or skin)

• LAMB (verb)

Meaning:

Give birth to a lamb

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Context example:

the ewe lambed

Hypernyms (to "lamb" is one way to...):

bear; birth; deliver; give birth; have (cause_to_be_born)

Sentence frame:

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