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# baa

noun (a baa, baas); verb (baa, baas, baaed, baaing); interjection

«baa» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. The sound a sheep or lamb makes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baa/#m1)
2. (verb) To make this sound; to bleat. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baa/#m2)
3. Baa San is a Japanese term of address meaning "old woman" or "grandmother". [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baa/#m3)

### In the lessons

Early reading, nursery rhymes («Baa, Baa, Black Sheep») and farm visits. Science: animal sounds. In Alice's world, the sound of sheep-bells and bleating sheep belongs to the countryside she wakes up to.

### Examples

- «Baa, baa, black sheep, have you any wool?» [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baa/#x1)
- The lambs baaed for their mothers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baa/#x2)
- We heard a loud «baa» from the field. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baa/#x3)
- The sheep went «baa» when the dog barked. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baa/#x4)
- Little Tom can say «baa» like a sheep. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baa/#x5)
- The baaing of sheep woke us early. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baa/#x6)

### Note

Onomatopoeia. Past: baaed. Not «bah» (which is a cross sound people make: «Bah! Humbug!»).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «baa» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baa/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«baa» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/baa.html) on Mova free.