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Definitions for Lamb

[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] the Lamb, Christ.
[6] to give birth to a lamb.
[7] Charles Elia , 1775–1834, English essayist and critic.
[8] Harold A., 1892–1962, U.S. novelist.
[9] Mary Ann, 1764–1847, English author who wrote in collaboration with her brother Charles Lamb.
[10] William, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, 1779–1848, English statesman: prime minister 1834, 1835–41.
[11] Willis E(ugene), Jr., 1913–2008, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1955.
[12] the young of a sheep
[13] the meat of a young sheep
[14] a person, esp a child, who is innocent, meek, good, etc
[15] a person easily deceived
[16] like a lamb to the slaughter without resistance innocently
[17] Also: lamb down (intr) (of a ewe) to give birth
[18] (tr; used in the passive) (of a lamb) to be born
[19] (intr) (of a shepherd) to tend the ewes and newborn lambs at lambing time
[20] the Lamb a title given to Christ in the New Testament
[21] 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)
[22] William. See (2nd Viscount) Melbourne 2
[23] 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

Words related to Lamb

fish, fool, sucker, pushover, gull, patsy, mark, victim, butt, chump, sap, pigeon, stooge, angel, dupe, virgin, greenhorn

Words nearby Lamb

lamartine, lamas, lamasery, lamaze, lamaze method, lamb, lamb down, lamb of god, lamb shift, lamb syndrome, lamb's ears

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

Words that may be confused with Lamb

lam, lamb

Word origin for Lamb

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

Synonyms for Lamb

fish, butt, chump, fool, gull, mark, patsy, pigeon, pushover, sap, sucker, victim, easy mark, sitting duck