birds
UK/bɜːdz//bɜɹdz/
birds is the plural of bird.
Meaning of bird
Noun
bird (plural birds)
- An animal of the clade (traditionally class) Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, having a beaked mouth, and laying eggs.
- Ducks and sparrows are birds.
- Synonyms:
- avian, fowl, feathered friend, feathered folk
- Any winged animal.
- A young bird, a nestling.
- […] the foxes have holes, and the brydds of the aier have nestes, but [t]he sonne of the man hath not where onto leye his heede: […]1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew viij:[20], folio x, recto
- A man, fellow.
- He once took in his own mother, and was robbed by a 'pal,' who thought he was a doctor. Oh, he's a rare bird is 'Gentleman Joe'!1886, Edmund Routledge, Routledge's every boy's annual
- A girl or woman, especially one considered sexually attractive.
- And by my word! the bonny bird / In danger shall not tarry.1809, Thomas Campbell, Lord Ullin's Daughter
- A girlfriend.
- Mike went out with his bird last night.
Phrases with birds
- birds off
- cat birds
- odd birds
- pie birds
- poë birds
- sea birds
- bill birds
- cage birds
- call birds
- dead birds
- dodo birds
- full birds
140 more phrasesFewer phrases
- game birds
- jail birds
- life birds
- love birds
- mino birds
- plum birds
- rare birds
- shit birds
- snow birds
- yard birds
- bower birds
- cedar birds
- devil birds
- dicky birds
- dirty birds
- dolly birds
- early birds
- friar birds
- green birds
- Jesus birds
- ku ku birds
- liver birds
- mango birds
- mound birds
- night birds
- paddy birds
- salad birds
- scrub birds
- shore birds
- spark birds
- table birds
- toddy birds
- umber birds
- water birds
- widow birds
- banana birds
- bovver birds
- box of birds
- broken birds
- bunyip birds
- canary birds
- crying birds
- dickie birds
- doctor birds
- ghetto birds
- goofus birds
- gooney birds
- gospel birds
- indigo birds
- mallee birds
- mutton birds
- oozlum birds
- parson birds
- terror birds
- wading birds
- birds of Jove
- birds of Juno
- birds of prey
- butcher birds
- ceiling birds
- diamond birds
- dragoon birds
- for the birds
- frigate birds
- gallows birds
- glacier birds
- go-away birds
- humming birds
- king of birds
- mocking birds
- Peabody birds
- sankofa birds
- strange birds
- sultana birds
- teacher birds
- unicorn birds
- adjutant birds
- birds and bees
- chipping birds
- cockyoly birds
- drinking birds
- elephant birds
- Lord God birds
- mackerel birds
- paradise birds
- perching birds
- preacher birds
- umbrella birds
- Baltimore birds
- birds of wonder
- chaparral birds
- cockyolly birds
- crocodile birds
- invisible birds
- lightning birds
- migratory birds
- secretary birds
- birds of passage
- man-of-war birds
- rhinoceros birds
- birds of ill omen
- birds of paradise
- Stymphalian birds
- birds of a feather
- shit for the birds
- king birds of paradise
- the birds and the bees
- happy as a box of birds
- gold-capped weaver birds
- two birds with one stone
- Wilson's birds of paradise
- hit two birds with one shot
- fed two birds with one scone
- hits two birds with one shot
- kill two birds with one shot
- feed two birds with one scone
- fine feathers make fine birds
- kill two birds with one stone
- kills two birds with one shot
- magnificent birds of paradise
- charm the birds from the trees
- feeds two birds with one scone
- killed two birds with one shot
- kills two birds with one stone
- standardwing birds of paradise
- charms the birds from the trees
- hitting two birds with one shot
- killed two birds with one stone
- killing two birds with one shot
- charm the birds out of the trees
- charmed the birds from the trees
- feeding two birds with one scone
- killing two birds with one stone
- birds of a feather flock together
- charming the birds from the trees
- charms the birds out of the trees
- charmed the birds out of the trees
- birds of the feather flock together
- charming the birds out of the trees
- you can't catch old birds with chaff
Questions about birds
- What is birds the plural of?
- Birds is the plural of bird.
- How do you pronounce birds?
- Birds is pronounced /bɜːdz/ (UK).
Words near birds in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: birds (page history and authors); bird (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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