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lamb

[ lam ]

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noun

a young sheep.
the meat of a young sheep.
a person who is gentle, meek, innocent, etc.:
Their little daughter is such a lamb.
a person who is easily cheated or outsmarted, especially an inexperienced speculator.
the Lamb, Christ.

verb (used without object)

to give birth to a lamb.

Lamb

[ lam ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Charles Elia, 1775–1834, English essayist and critic.
Harold A., 1892–1962, U.S. novelist.
Mary Ann, 1764–1847, English author who wrote in collaboration with her brother Charles Lamb.
William, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, 1779–1848, English statesman: prime minister 1834, 1835–41.
Willis E(ugene), Jr., 1913–2008, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1955.

Lamb

/ læm /

noun

LambCharles17751834MEnglishWRITING: essayistWRITING: critic Charles, pen name Elia. 1775–1834, English essayist and critic. He collaborated with his sister Mary on Tales from Shakespeare (1807). His other works include Specimens of English Dramatic Poets (1808) and the largely autobiographical essays collected in Essays of Elia (1823; 1833)
William. See (2nd Viscount) Melbourne 2
LambWillis Eugene19132008MUSSCIENCE: physicist Willis Eugene. 1913–2008, US physicist. He detected the small difference in energy between two states of the hydrogen atom ( Lamb shift ). Nobel prize for physics 1955

lamb

/ læm /

noun

the young of a sheep
the meat of a young sheep
a person, esp a child, who is innocent, meek, good, etc
a person easily deceived
like a lamb to the slaughter
1. without resistance
2. innocently

verb

Alsolamb down intr (of a ewe) to give birth
tr; used in the passive (of a lamb) to be born
intr (of a shepherd) to tend the ewes and newborn lambs at lambing time

Lamb

/ læm /

noun

the Lamb
a title given to Christ in the New Testament

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Derived Forms

ˈlambˌlike, adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of lamb¹

First recorded before 900; Middle English, Old English; cognate with Dutch lam, German Lamm, Old Norse, Gothic lamb; akin to Greek élaphos “deer”; elk

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Word History and Origins

Origin of lamb¹

Old English lamb, from Germanic; compare German Lamm, Old High German and Old Norse lamb

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Idioms and Phrases

see hanged for a sheep (as a lamb) ; in two shakes (of a lamb's tail) ; like a lamb to the slaughter .

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