- the Lamb ⇒ a title given to Christ in the New Testament
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Lamb /læm/ n
Lamb /læm/ n
- 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)
- 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/USA pronunciation
n.
v. [no object]
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- Animal Husbandry[countable] a young sheep.
- the meat of a young sheep:[uncountable]a leg of lamb.
- a person who is gentle, meek, or easily cheated.
v. [no object]
- to give birth to a lamb.
lamb
(lam),USA pronunciation n.
v.i.
Lamb (lam),USA pronunciation n.
- Animal Husbandrya 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, esp. an inexperienced speculator.
- the Lamb, Christ.
v.i.
- to give birth to a lamb.
- bef. 900; Middle English, Old English; cognate with Dutch lam, German Lamm, Old Norse, Gothic lamb; akin to Greek élaphos deer. See elk
Lamb (lam),USA pronunciation n.
- Biographical Charles ("Elia''), 1775–1834, English essayist and critic.
- Biographical Harold A., 1892–1962, U.S. novelist.
- Biographical Mary Ann, 1764–1847, English author who wrote in collaboration with her brother Charles Lamb.
- Biographical William, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, 1779–1848, English statesman: prime minister 1834, 1835–41.
- Biographical Willis E(ugene), Jr., born 1913, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1955.
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lamb /læm/ n
- 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
- Also: lamb down (intransitive) (of a ewe) to give birth
- (intransitive) (of a shepherd) to tend the ewes and newborn lambs at lambing time
'Lamb' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Agnus Dei
- amnion
- caracul
- chop
- corn salad
- cosset
- crop
- cutlet
- doeskin
- dopiaza
- Elia
- ewe
- forequarter
- gigot
- goulash
- hindquarter
- Irish stew
- karakul
- kid
- kip
- lamb down
- Lamb of God
- lambskin
- lamb's lettuce
- lamb's tails
- lambkin
- leg
- lettuce
- Melbourne
- mutton
- navarin
- noisette
- Paschal Lamb
- Passover
- Persian lamb
- poddy
- red meat
- Scotch broth
- stachys
- target
- tikka
- van Eyck
- vellum
- weaner
- yean
- agnel
- barbecue
- baron
- Bedlington terrier
- blanquette