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A bird sang in the tree.
What does Bird mean?
A bird is a warm-blooded animal with feathers and wings; to bird is to watch and identify wild birds.
Dictionary definition
A warm-blooded vertebrate with feathers, wings, and a beak. Informally, bird can mean a person; in North American badminton it can mean a shuttlecock. As a verb, to bird means to watch or identify wild birds.
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Bird in a sentence
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The bird used twigs to build a nest.
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We bird along the lakeshore each spring and record every species we identify.
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In North American badminton, some players call the shuttlecock a bird.
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What does bird mean?
A bird is an animal with feathers, wings, and a beak.
Practice 2
Which sentence uses bird as a verb?
As a verb, bird means to observe or identify wild birds.
Practice 3
Which sentence uses bird correctly?
Birds often build nests in trees or other safe places.
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WordBird.
Partnoun, verb.
MeaningBird means A bird is a warm-blooded animal with feathers and wings; to bird is to watch and identify wild birds.
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Does Bird have synonyms?
Bird has no precise general synonym across its animal, person, sports, and verb senses. Avian is formal and often adjectival, while fowl and songbird name narrower kinds of birds.
Antonym review
Does Bird have an opposite?
Bird names an animal class and has no direct antonym. Mammal, fish, reptile, amphibian, and insect are neighboring groups, not opposites.
Word family
Bird word family
Base word
bird
noun
birds
More than one bird.
noun
birdwatching
The activity of watching birds.
noun
birding
The activity of observing and identifying wild birds.
noun
birder
A person who observes and identifies birds.
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Hint for students
Feathers identify the animal meaning even when the bird cannot fly; watching and identifying wild birds signals the verb meaning.
Common mix-up
Flying does not define a bird—penguins and ostriches are birds. In British slang, bird for a woman can sound dated or disrespectful, and “the bird” can name a rude gesture, so avoid those uses.
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Students compare picture cards of a bat, butterfly, penguin, and robin. They identify which are birds using feathers rather than flight, then write one noun sentence and one verb sentence with bird.
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Compare “A penguin is a bird” and “We bird near the marsh.” What features prove the noun meaning, and what action does the verb name?
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