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skylark

UK/ˈskaɪlɑːk//ˈskaɪlɑɹk/

skylark noun: a small brown passerine bird, Alauda arvensis, that sings as it flies high into the air.

skylark: a small brown passerine bird, Alauda arvensis, that sings as it flies high into the air
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Noun

skylark (plural skylarks)

  1. A small brown passerine bird, Alauda arvensis, that sings as it flies high into the air.

Verb

skylark (third-person singular simple present skylarks, present participle skylarking, simple past and past participle skylarked)

  1. (dated) To jump about joyfully, frolic; to play around, play tricks.
    • I cherished no malice towards him, though he had been skylarking with me not a little in the matter of my bedfellow.1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 5

skylark meaning in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Arabic

skylark in Tamil

small brown passerine bird
வானம்பாடி vāṉampāṭi

skylark in Telugu

skylark
వ్యాఘ్రాటము vyāghrāṭamu, భరద్వాజము bharadvājamu, ఏట్రింత ēṭrinta

skylark in Kannada

small brown passerine bird
ಬಾನಾಡಿ bānāḍi

skylark in Arabic

small brown passerine bird
قُبَّرَة qubbara
More languagesFewer languages
skylark in Vietnamese
chiền chiện

Forms of skylark

Noun
pluralskylarks
Verb
third-person singular presentskylarks
present participleskylarking
past participleskylarked
pastskylarked

Origin of skylark

From sky + lark. Verb sense 1809, originally nautical, possibly influenced by northern English dialectal term lake/laik (“to play”) (from Old Norse leika (“to play (as opposed to work)”)); see lark for details.

Words formed from skylark

Words that rhyme with skylark

Questions about skylark

What does skylark mean?
Skylark means a small brown passerine bird, Alauda arvensis, that sings as it flies high into the air.
What is skylark in Tamil?
Skylark in Tamil is வானம்பாடி (vāṉampāṭi). See Skylark meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is skylark?
Skylark can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce skylark?
Skylark is pronounced /ˈskaɪlɑːk/ (UK).
What is the plural of skylark?
The plural of skylark is skylarks.

Words near skylark in the dictionary

  1. skylab
  2. skylabs
  3. skyland
  4. skylands
  5. Skylar
  6. skylark
  7. skylarked
  8. skylarker
  9. skylarkers
  10. skylarking
  11. skylarkings

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: skylark (page history and authors); ఏట్రింత (Telugu) (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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