tiel
/tiːl/
tiel is the clipping of cockatiel.
Meaning of cockatiel
Noun
cockatiel (plural cockatiels)
- Nymphicus hollandicus, a small, rather atypical cockatoo with a distinctive pointed yellow crest, native to Australia. Avicultural forms come in many color mutations such as White Face Gray, White Face Pearl, Fallow, Pearl Pied, Cinnamon Pearl, and White Face Pied.
- The smaller parrakeets, such as budgerigars, turquoisines, and love birds, delight In going in and out of the cocoa nuts, but I never saw a cockatiel enter one, nor do I see how they could do so without detriment to their long tails.1871, Norfolk (pseudonym), “Cockatiels”, in The Exchange and Mart, volume 4, number 139, page 481
Proper noun capitalized: Tiel
Tiel
- A city in Gelderland, Netherlands.
- A municipality of Gelderland, Netherlands.
Forms of tiel
| plural | tiels |
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Words that rhyme with tiel
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- keel
- anneal
- creel
- peal
- peel
- sweal
- congeal
- Izmail
- kneel
- meal
- Neale
- streal
- weal
- awheel
- Castile
- cochineal
- feal
- heal
- Lille
- ordeal
- repeal
- sele
- squeal
- teal
- zeal
- ceil
- debile
- dishabille
- hele
- leal
- lifesteal
- Neil
- Niel
- O'Neill
- reveal
- schlemiel
- seel
- she'll
- shiel
- skeel
- spiel
- square meal
- unseal
- veal
- we'll
- weel
- ye'll
- -meal
Questions about tiel
- What does tiel mean?
- Tiel means a city in Gelderland, Netherlands.
- What is tiel the clipping of?
- Tiel is the clipping of cockatiel.
- What part of speech is tiel?
- Tiel is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce tiel?
- Tiel is pronounced /tiːl/.
Words near tiel in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: tiel (page history and authors); Tiel (page history and authors); cockatiel (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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