Lamb (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun
  1. a young sheep.
  2. the meat of a young sheep.
  3. a person who is gentle, meek, innocent, etc.: Their little daughter is such a lamb.
  4. a person who is easily cheated or outsmarted, especially an inexperienced speculator.
  5. Christ.
verb (used without object)
  1. to give birth to a lamb.
noun
  1. English essayist and critic.
  2. U.S. novelist.
  3. English author who wrote in collaboration with her brother Charles Lamb.
  4. English statesman: prime minister 1834, 1835–41.
  5. U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1955.
noun
  1. the young of a sheep
  2. the meat of a young sheep
  3. a person, esp a child, who is innocent, meek, good, etc
  4. a person easily deceived
  5. like a lamb to the slaughter
    • without resistance
    • innocently
verb
  1. (of a ewe) to give birth
  2. (of a lamb) to be born
  3. (of a shepherd) to tend the ewes and newborn lambs at lambing time
noun
  1. a title given to Christ in the New Testament
noun
  1. 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)
  2. William. See (2nd Viscount) Melbourne 2
  3. 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 (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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