Word.ws English Dictionary

titmouse

US/ˈtɪtmaʊs/

titmouse noun: any small passerine bird mostly of the genus Baeolophus, which are found in the woods of the Northern Hemisphere and of Africa.

titmouse: any small passerine bird mostly of the genus Baeolophus, which are found in the woods of the...
Image: Ken Thomas, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

titmouse (plural titmice or titmouses)

  1. Any small passerine bird mostly of the genus Baeolophus, which are found in the woods of the Northern Hemisphere and of Africa.
    Synonyms:
    tit

titmouse meaning in Tamil

titmouse in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும் பறவைகளில், இது ஒரு சிறப்பு இனமாகும்

Synonyms of titmouse

Forms of titmouse

pluraltitmice
pluraltitmouses

Plural of titmouse: titmice or titmouses

Origin of titmouse

From Middle English titmose, compound of tit (“small bird”) and mose, from Old English māse (“titmouse”), from Proto-West Germanic *maisā, from Proto-Germanic *maisǭ (compare Dutch mees, German Meise, Old Norse meisingr, French mésange), from *maisaz (“tiny, puny”) (compare Norwegian meis (“skinny weakling”)). Spelling as well as the plural form in imitation of the otherwise unrelated mouse.

Words formed from titmouse

Questions about titmouse

What does titmouse mean?
Titmouse means any small passerine bird mostly of the genus Baeolophus, which are found in the woods of the Northern Hemisphere and of Africa.
What is titmouse in Tamil?
Titmouse in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும் பறவைகளில், இது ஒரு சிறப்பு இனமாகும். See Titmouse meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is titmouse?
Titmouse is a noun.
How do you pronounce titmouse?
Titmouse is pronounced /ˈtɪtmaʊs/ (US).
What is the plural of titmouse?
The plural of titmouse is titmice.

Words near titmouse in the dictionary

  1. Titlow
  2. titman
  3. Titmarsh
  4. titmen
  5. titmice
  6. titmouse
  7. titmouses
  8. Titmus
  9. Titmuses
  10. Titmuss
  11. Titmusses

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: titmouse (page history and authors); titmouse (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.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-titmouse.wav.

Cite this entry: “titmouse.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/titmouse. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.