daffodil
/ˈdæfəˌdɪl/
daffodil noun: a bulbous plant of the genus Narcissus, with yellow flowers and a trumpet shaped corona, especially Narcissus pseudonarcissus, the national flower of Wales.
Noun
daffodil (countable and uncountable, plural daffodils)
- A bulbous plant of the genus Narcissus, with yellow flowers and a trumpet shaped corona, especially Narcissus pseudonarcissus, the national flower of Wales.
- When daffadils begin to peere, / With heigh the Doxy ouer the dale, / Why then comes in the ſweet o’ the yeere, / For the red blood raigns in yͤ winters pale.c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
- I wandered lonely as a Cloud / That floats on high o’er Vales and Hills, / When all at once I saw a crowd / A host of dancing Daffodills; / Along the Lake, beneath the trees, / Ten thousand dancing in the breeze.1807, William Wordsworth, “[I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud]”, in Poems, in Two Volumes, volume II, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], →OCLC, stanza 1, page 49
- A brilliant yellow color, like that of a daffodil.
- Where ships of purple gently toss / On seas of daffodil, / Fantastic sailors mingle, / And then—the wharf is still.a. 1887 (date written), Emily Dickinson, “Where Ships of purple gently toss”, in Mabel Loomis Todd and T[homas] W[entworth] Higginson, editors, Poems, Second Series, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers...
Adjective
daffodil (comparative more daffodil, superlative most daffodil)
- Of a brilliant yellow color, like that of a daffodil.
Proper noun capitalized: Daffodil
Daffodil
- A female given name from English.
- "Pansy would be his wife," Delia guessed.
"Yes, and the baby's name is Daffodil, can you believe it?"
"There's a baby?"
"And it wasn't even a springtime baby! It was born in October!"1995, Anne Tyler, Ladder of Years, Knopf, →ISBN, page 148
- "Pansy would be his wife," Delia guessed.
daffodil meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Malayalam
daffodil in Hindi
- flower
- नरगिस nargis, नर्गिस nargis
daffodil in Tamil
- flower
- பேரரளி pēraraḷi
daffodil in Bengali
- হলুদ বর্ণের পুষ্পবিশেষ
daffodil in Malayalam
- flower
- ഡാഫോഡിൽ ḍāphōḍil
More languagesFewer languages
- daffodil in Kannada
- ನೆಲನೈದಿಲೆ, ತಿಳಿಹಳದಿ ಬಣ್ಣ, ನಸು ಹಳದಿ ಬಣ್ಣ
- daffodil in Arabic
- نَرْجُس بَرِّيّ narjus barriyy
- daffodil in Malay
- dafodil, narcissus, nargis, narjis
- daffodil in Indonesian
- narsis
- daffodil in Persian
- نرگس narges
- daffodil in Vietnamese
- thủy tiên
Examples of daffodil in a sentence
- I love to garden—this year I'm going to plant some daffodils.
- I should ask the green thumb next door what she recommends for my droopy daffodils.
- These carnations smell beautiful but those daffodils smell funny.
Forms of daffodil
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | daffodils |
| alternative form (obsolete) | affodill |
| alternative form (obsolete) | daffadil |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more daffodil |
| superlative | most daffodil |
Origin of daffodil
Variant of Middle English affodill (“ramson”), from Medieval Latin affodillus, from Latin asphodelus, from Ancient Greek ἀσφόδελος (asphódelos), of Pre-Greek origin. The initial d- is perhaps from merging of the article in Dutch de affodil, the Netherlands being a source for bulbs (compare adder, apron, newt, nickname, orange and umpire for this rebracketing process). Doublet of asphodel.
From the daffodil flower, used since the end of the 19th century.
Words formed from daffodil
- bunch-flowered daffodil
- checkered daffodil
- daffodil telephone
- hoop-petticoat daffodil
- lily daffodil
- Malabar daffodil orchid
- paper-white daffodil
- Peruvian daffodil
- poet's daffodil
- rush daffodil
- rush-leaved daffodil
- sea daffodil
- wild daffodil
- winter daffodil Sternbergia lutea
Phrases with daffodil
Questions about daffodil
- What does daffodil mean?
- Daffodil means a bulbous plant of the genus Narcissus, with yellow flowers and a trumpet shaped corona, especially Narcissus pseudonarcissus, the national flower of Wales.
- What is daffodil in Hindi?
- Daffodil in Hindi is नरगिस (nargis), नर्गिस (nargis). See Daffodil meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is daffodil?
- Daffodil can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce daffodil?
- Daffodil is pronounced /ˈdæfəˌdɪl/.
- What is the plural of daffodil?
- The plural of daffodil is daffodils.
Words near daffodil in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: daffodil (page history and authors); Daffodil (page history and authors); daffodil (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); daffodil (Kannada 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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