Plural of lamb
regular plural
The plural of lamb is lambs.
Forms of lamb
| Singular | lamb /ˈlæm/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | lambs /læmz/ |
| Countable | countable and uncountable |
Less standard forms: lamber (dialectal).
Lambs in a sentence
- Mark and Mark have raised some lambs for market, and they won a blue ribbon for quality at the fair.
- I’m one of her lambs.2003, Bust, page 88
- Ye mountains, that ye did leep like rams; and ye hills, like lambs of the flock.From the entry leep
- We saw the lambs frolicking in the meadow.From the entry frolic
- There were more than three hundred Swaledales out on the hills and as many lambs and more.2023, Kate Atkinson, “The Void”, in Normal Rules Don’t Apply, Penguin (2024), pages 4-5. From the entry Swaledale
Meaning of lamb
- noun A young sheep; especially, one younger than nine months.
- noun A young goat; a kid.
- noun The flesh of a lamb used as food; (sometimes loosely) the flesh of a sheep of any age used as food.
Questions about the plural of lamb
- What is the plural of lamb?
- The plural of lamb is lambs.
- Is lamb countable?
- Lamb is a countable and uncountable noun.
- Is lamber correct?
- lamber is marked dialectal in Wiktionary. The usual plural of lamb is lambs.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: lamb (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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