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birdless

birdless adjective: without birds.

Adjective

birdless (not comparable)

  1. Without birds.
    • Rude huts, like birdless nests, are tenantless;1854, Anonymous [Samuel R. Phillips], Nebraska, A Poem, Personal and Political, Boston: John P. Jewett & Co., page 11
    • Most of her aunt’s property was in houses, in various districts of Bloomsbury. Arabella moved from one to the other of these tenements, till she settled for good into the dullest of all. To make it duller yet, by contrast with the past, the Golgotha for once gave up its buried treasures—broken...1858, Edward Bulwer-Lytton (under the pseudonym Pisistratus Caxton), What Will He Do with It?, Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1859, Volume III, Chapter 9, pp. 88-89

Origin of birdless

From Middle English bridles, byrdles, equivalent to bird + -less.

Words formed from birdless

Questions about birdless

What does birdless mean?
Birdless means without birds.
What part of speech is birdless?
Birdless is an adjective.

Words near birdless in the dictionary

  1. birdishness
  2. birdkeeper
  3. birdkeepers
  4. birdkeeping
  5. birdkind
  6. birdless
  7. birdlessness
  8. birdlet
  9. birdlets
  10. birdlife
  11. birdlike

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