sheep

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

sheep BrE [ʃiːp] NAmE [ʃiːp] noun (pl. sheep)
an animal with a thick coat, kept on farms for its meat (called ↑mutton or ↑lamb) or its wool
•a flock of sheep
• Sheep were grazing in the fields.
compare ↑ewe, ↑lamb, ↑ram
see also ↑black sheep
more at count sheep at ↑count _v., (you, etc.) may/might as well be hanged/hung for a sheep as (for) a lamb at ↑well _adv., a wolf in sheep's clothing at ↑wolf _n.
Idioms: ↑like sheep ▪ ↑sort out the sheep from the goats

Word Origin:
[sheep] Old English scēp, scǣp, scēap, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch schaap and German Schaf.

Example Bank:
•He sees it as his duty to take care of the lost sheep of the world.
•It's nearly the sheep's lambing time.
•My grandfather used to raise sheep in Australia.
•The dogs herded the sheep into the pen.
•There were a lot of sheep grazing high up on the mountain.
•a 4 000-acre sheep station in New South Wales
•the doleful cries of lost sheep