robin
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- noun
- /ˈrɑːbɪn/
- UK
:
petirrojo
- New bird species included robins, wrens, plovers, sandpipers, cranes, and Lapland longspurs, as well as some sightings of parakeets.
I am incapable of having a voice like a Robin singing of springtime's newborn impatience.
- I am incapable of having a voice like a Robin singing of springtime's newborn impatience.
Examples
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Above us, around us, two robins dart and chirp.
Fiction book (1995) -
Above the orchard wall, she could see the tops of trees and a robin sitting on a branch.
Fiction book (1996) -
And I love you baby like a robin loves to sing
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That robin sings just like I feel.
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Mary told about the robin and led the boy to where the ivy grew over the door.
Fiction book (1996) -
And all of a sudden thousands of robins were set free.
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What could beat a sun-kissed morning on Battle Lake and a robin's song?
Fiction book (1992) -
From the lowest horizontal branch above our heads, a robin flies out, chirping loudly.
Fiction book (1995) -
Mary dug and weeded and enjoyed herself immensely as the robin chirped.
Fiction book (1996) -
In spring, a robin often builds its nest in my backyard, chirping happily every morning.
Synonyms
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A small songbird with a red chest, like the European robin
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A small brown bird with a bright red breast often seen in gardens and woods
A small bird with a red-orange chest often seen in European gardens
A small European bird with a red breast that sings and lives in gardens and woods
A small bird that sings with a red breast often seen in gardens
Idioms
Compounds
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A small brown bird with a bright red breast often seen in gardens and woods
A small bird with dull brown-gray feathers that lives in Mexico and Central America
A low plant with white flowers that lives for many years in southeastern United States woods
- Specialized
A fish with bony plates and chin whiskers that lives near the continental slope
- Specialized
A large sea fish with big front fins that stirs sand to find food
A small plant often grown in hanging baskets with trailing stems, rounded leaves and small purple flowers
A small European bird with a red breast that sings and lives in gardens and woods
- Specialized
A wildflower with dark purple flowers without stems that grows in central United States prairies
- Specialized
A fish that lives on the sea floor, often near shores, with a bony head and winglike fins
- US
A woodland plant with three leaves and one three-petaled flower common in North America
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Surface Forms
Etymology
The word robin comes from the old personal name Robin, a short form of Robert. People long ago called the small European bird 'red breast' and used the friendly name Robin, so that human name stuck to the bird.