Meanings
nounsheepdom (uncountable)
- uncountableThe quality or state of being a sheep.
Harry sat between them, like a sheep as he was, very meekly--not without some enjoyment of his sheepdom, but still feeling that he was a sheep.
c. 1867, Anthony Trollope, The Claverings1 more example
In the shape of a wedge with a leader at the point of it, they were running with a definite purpose and as though all the dogs in sheepdom were heeling them.
1919, Caroline Lockhart, The Fighting Shepherdess
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sheepdom. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sheepdom
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