Usually means: Domesticated animal, woolly, produces lanolin.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. sheep: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sheep: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sheep: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sheep: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sheep: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sheep, sheep: Wordnik
  7. sheep: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sheep: Wiktionary
  9. sheep: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sheep: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sheep: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Sheep, sheep: Dictionary.com
  13. sheep: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. sheep: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. SHEEP (EP), SHEEP (Smile Empty Soul EP), Sheep (EP), Sheep (Lay song), Sheep (The Housemartins song), Sheep (disambiguation), Sheep (mixtape), Sheep (novel), Sheep (song), Sheep (video game), Sheep (zodiac), Sheep, The Sheep (film), The Sheep: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sheep: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sheep: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sheep: Rhymezone
  19. sheep: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sheep: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Sheep: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. Sheep: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. sheep: Free Dictionary
  24. sheep: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. sheep: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. sheep: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Cheese Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Sheep: Investopedia
  3. Sheep: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SHEEP: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. sheep: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. sheep: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  3. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. SHEEP: Acronym Finder
  5. Sheep: Glossary of Terms in Parapsychology
  6. sheep: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sheep: Easton Bible
  2. Sheep: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sheep: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. SHEEP: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sheep: Glossary of Cheese Terms

(Note: See sheeping as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) A woolly ruminant of the genus Ovis.
noun:  (countable, strictly) A member of the domestic species Ovis aries, the most well-known species of Ovis.
noun:  (countable) A timid, shy person who is easily led by others.
noun:  (countable, chiefly Christianity, chiefly plural) A religious adherent, a member of a congregation or religious community (compare flock).
noun:  (uncountable) Sheepskin leather.
noun:  (countable, speech recognition) A person who is easily understood by a speech recognition system; contrasted with goat.

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