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chickadee

/ˈt͡ʃɪk.əˌdi/

chickadee noun: any of the small, mostly black and white North American songbirds of the genus Poecile of the family Paridae.

chickadee: any of the small, mostly black and white North American songbirds of the genus Poecile of the...
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Noun

chickadee (plural chickadees)

  1. (Canada, US) Any of the small, mostly black and white North American songbirds of the genus Poecile of the family Paridae.
    • In Walden wood the chickadee / Runs round the pine and maple tree1904, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Fragments on Nature and Life”, in Poems
    Synonyms:
    tit
  2. Affectionate term of address.
    • I got a date with a cute little chickadee in just a few, an' I don't wanna be late!2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Glitzville

chickadee meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Persian and Vietnamese

chickadee in Hindi

songbird
रामगंगरा rāmgaṅgrā

chickadee in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும் பறவைகளில், இது ஒரு சிறப்பு இனமாகும்

chickadee in Persian

songbird
چرخریسک

chickadee in Vietnamese

songbird
bạc má

Synonyms of chickadee

Forms of chickadee

pluralchickadees

Origin of chickadee

Apparent onomatopoeia from these birds' calls having a distinctive “chick-a-dee-dee-dee” sound, possibly influenced by chick or chicken.

Words formed from chickadee

Questions about chickadee

What does chickadee mean?
Chickadee means any of the small, mostly black and white North American songbirds of the genus Poecile of the family Paridae.
What is chickadee in Hindi?
Chickadee in Hindi is रामगंगरा (rāmgaṅgrā). See Chickadee meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is chickadee?
Chickadee is a noun.
How do you pronounce chickadee?
Chickadee is pronounced /ˈt͡ʃɪk.əˌdi/.
What is the plural of chickadee?
The plural of chickadee is chickadees.

Words near chickadee in the dictionary

  1. chick-peas
  2. chick-weed
  3. chick-weeds
  4. chickabiddies
  5. chickabiddy
  6. chickadee
  7. chickadees
  8. Chickahominy
  9. Chickamauga
  10. chickaree
  11. chickarees

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chickadee (page history and authors); chickadee (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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