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NOUN:
  1. A fenced enclosure for domestic animals, especially sheep.
  2. A flock of sheep.
    1. A group of people or institutions bound together by common beliefs and aims: "He is a living testament to the wisdom of admitting lay psychoanalysts into the official fold" (Jerome Bruner).
    2. A religious congregation: The priest welcomed new parishioners into the fold.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
foldˇed, foldˇing, folds
To place or keep (sheep, for example) in a fenced enclosure.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English, from Old English fald


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