Definitions for Lamb

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Lamb lamb

Spelling: [lam]

IPA: /læm/

Lamb is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in Lamb (ablm).

Definitions for Lamb

noun

1. a young sheep.
2. the meat of a young sheep.
3. a person who is gentle, meek, innocent, etc.:
4. a person who is easily cheated or outsmarted, especially an inexperienced speculator.
5. the Lamb, Christ.
6. Charles ("Elia") 1775–1834, English essayist and critic.
7. Harold A. 1892–1962, U.S. novelist.
8. Mary Ann, 1764–1847, English author who wrote in collaboration with her brother Charles Lamb.
9. William, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, 1779–1848, English statesman: prime minister 1834, 1835–41.
10. Willis E(ugene), Jr. 1913–2008, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1955.

verb (used without object)

1. to give birth to a lamb.

Origin of Lamb

before 900; Middle English, Old English; cognate with Dutch lam, German Lamm, Old Norse, Gothic lamb; akin to Greek élaphos deer. See elk

Examples for Lamb

Behold the lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

In her white prom dress, Carrie is like a lamb to the slaughter, the blood besmirching her innocence.

lamb and Coleridge, on the other hand, have praised "Lear" as a world's masterpiece.

The freezer is filled with meat, sides of beef and large pieces of lamb.

I must have had lamb and potatoes 180 times since I have been here.

His family ran a butcher shop in a part of town so tough that their specialty was broken leg of lamb.

Families were sitting picnic-style, meals of lamb and rice on large plates, scooped up with the flat bread nan.

This last referred, not to K. Le Moyne, of course, but to the lamb stew.

The bones of lamb are pink, while those of mutton are white.

The joint is jagged in lamb, but smooth and round in mutton.