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sheepfolds

sheepfolds is the plural of sheepfold.

Meaning of sheepfold

Noun

sheepfold (plural sheepfolds)

  1. An enclosure for keeping sheep.
    • If civilized life had covered over the ancient verities, Dumuzi learns in his tragic death that the sheepfold is still there to reclaim him.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 180
  2. A flock of sheep.
    • We weep because the Lord’s sheepfold is guarded by wolves; we despair because truth gasps for breath amid lies.2025 November 19, Vivian Ren (pseudonym), “The Weeping Believer: A Report from a Chinese Christian”, in Bitter Winter

Questions about sheepfolds

What is sheepfolds the plural of?
Sheepfolds is the plural of sheepfold.

Words near sheepfolds in the dictionary

  1. Sheepeater
  2. Sheepeaters
  3. sheepfaced
  4. sheepflesh
  5. sheepfold
  6. sheepfolds
  7. sheepfucker
  8. sheepfuckers
  9. sheepgrass
  10. sheephead
  11. sheepherder

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