Word.ws English Dictionary

sheepskin

sheepskin noun: the skin of a sheep, especially an adult sheep, and especially when used to make parchment or in bookbinding.

sheepskin: the skin of a sheep, especially an adult sheep, and especially when used to make parchment or in...
Image: Silar, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

sheepskin (countable and uncountable, plural sheepskins)

  1. (uncountable) The skin of a sheep, especially an adult sheep, and especially when used to make parchment or in bookbinding.
    • Near-synonym: lambskin
    • I confess to having felt a prejudice against sleeping in a bag, more especially a sheepskin bag, which would probably have a muttony odor; but it was pronounced to be the warmest and least cumbersome form of bedding we could have […]1891, Outing: Sport, Adventure, Travel, Fiction, volume 17, page 137
    Synonyms:
    lambskin
    1. The tanned skin of a sheep with the fleece left on, especially when used for clothing, rugs, etc.
  2. (US, countable) A diploma, especially the one representing a university or college degree.
    • […] he took his sheepskin with a bow and a gesture that extinguished several of his companions;1919, Henry Blake Fuller, chapter 32, in Bertram Cope’s Year, Chicago: R.F. Seymour, page 302

sheepskin meaning in Tamil, Arabic and Persian

sheepskin in Tamil

செம்மறித்தோல்

sheepskin in Arabic

skin of a sheep
حَوَر ḥawar

sheepskin in Persian

skin of a sheep
پوستین pustin, وت vat

Synonyms of sheepskin

Forms of sheepskin

pluralsheepskins

Plural of sheepskin: sheepskins

Origin of sheepskin

From sheep + skin.

Words formed from sheepskin

Questions about sheepskin

What does sheepskin mean?
Sheepskin means the skin of a sheep, especially an adult sheep, and especially when used to make parchment or in bookbinding.
What is sheepskin in Tamil?
Sheepskin in Tamil is செம்மறித்தோல். See Sheepskin meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sheepskin?
Sheepskin is a noun.
What is the plural of sheepskin?
The plural of sheepskin is sheepskins.

Words near sheepskin in the dictionary

  1. sheepshearer
  2. sheepshearers
  3. sheepshearing
  4. sheepshearings
  5. sheepshit
  6. sheepskin
  7. sheepskin effect
  8. sheepskinned
  9. sheepskins
  10. sheepstealer
  11. sheepstealers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sheepskin (page history and authors); sheepskin (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sheepskin.wav.

Cite this entry: “sheepskin.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sheepskin. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.