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birks

birks is the plural of birk.

Meaning of birk

Noun

birk (plural birks)

  1. (Northern England) A birch tree.
    • Shadows of the silver birk / Sweep the green that folds thy grave.1842, Alfred Tennyson, “A Dirge”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, stanza I, page 56
  2. A Eurasian minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus, syn. Leuciscus phoxinus).

See all 4 meanings of birk

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Birks

Birks

  1. A surname.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Birks

Birks

  1. (plural) plural of Birk

Noun capitalized: Birks

Birks pl (plural only)

  1. (informal, plural, plural-only, footwear) Birkenstock sandals
    • Indeed, sneakers and Birks are by no means the giveaways they once were. They are pretty much an integral part of every wardrobe, not to mention every designer collection on Avenue Montaigne.2023 August 7, Vanessa Friedman, “Do These Shoes Make Me Look Like a Tourist?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Origin of birks

Clipping of Birkenstock.

Questions about birks

What does birks mean?
Birks means a surname.
What is birks the plural of?
Birks is the plural of birk.
What part of speech is birks?
Birks can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near birks in the dictionary

  1. Birkner
  2. Birkners
  3. Birknes
  4. birkremite
  5. birkremites
  6. birks
  7. Birkthwaite
  8. Birky
  9. Birkys
  10. birl
  11. birladie

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Adapted from Wiktionary: birks (page history and authors); Birks (page history and authors); birk (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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