vulture
UK/ˈvʌltʃə//ˈvʌlt͡ʃɚ/
vulture noun: any of several carrion-eating birds of the families Accipitridae and Cathartidae.
Noun
vulture (plural vultures)
- Any of several carrion-eating birds of the families Accipitridae and Cathartidae.
- The outer third of the wing of a vulture consists of the wing tips. The inner two-thirds of the wing are cambered (when the wing is extended), and are concerned with lifting effort in unsoarable air and with lifting and tractive effort in soarable air.1912, Flight
- In clusters on the plain, like cowlless monks at matins, sat the vultures that had settled on the corpse of the hyena impaled by the female rhino […]1982, Michael Bishop, No enemy but time
- A person who profits from the suffering of others.
- Within ten minutes of the accident, the vultures appeared and were organizing lawsuits.
- Synonyms:
- ambulance chaser, vampire
Verb
vulture (third-person singular simple present vultures, present participle vulturing, simple past and past participle vultured)
Adjective
vulture
vulture meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
vulture in Hindi
- bird
- गिद्ध giddh
vulture in Tamil
- பாறு, பாறு கழுகு, ராஜாளி, பிணந்தின்னிக் கழுகு
vulture in Marathi
- bird
- गिधाड gidhāḍ
vulture in Urdu
- bird
- گدھ giddh
More languagesFewer languages
- vulture in Bengali
- শকুন śakuna
- vulture in Telugu
- రాబందు rābandu
- vulture in Malayalam
- കഴുകൻ kaḻukaṉ, കഴുക് kaḻukŭ, കഴു kaḻu
- vulture in Kannada
- ರಣಹದ್ದು raṇahaddu, ಕಂಕ kaṅka
- vulture in Punjabi
- ਗਿਰਝ girajh, ਗਿੱਧ giddha
- vulture in Gujarati
- ગીધ gīdh
- vulture in Odia
- ଶାଗୁଣା śāguṇā
- vulture in Sanskrit
- आज āja
- vulture in Assamese
- শগুন xogun
- vulture in Nepali
- गिद्ध giddha
- vulture in Pashto
- ګرګس gargas
- vulture in Tagalog
- buwitre
- vulture in Arabic
- نَسْر nasr
- vulture in Malay
- nasar, hering
- vulture in Indonesian
- nazar, hering
- vulture in Persian
- کرکس karkas, لاشخور lâšxwar
- vulture in Thai
- อีแร้ง ee ráeng, แร้ง ráeng
- vulture in Vietnamese
- kền kền
- vulture in Myanmar
- လင်းတ lang:ta.
- Kashmiri
- گرَٛد
Examples of vulture in a sentence
- Some vultures have lappets of bare flesh on the sides of the head.
- I managed to drive the vultures away by shouting and waving my arms about.
- The circle of vultures was not a good auspice.
Synonyms of vulture
Forms of vulture
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | vultures |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | vultures |
| present participle | vulturing |
| past participle | vultured |
| past | vultured |
Origin of vulture
Borrowed into Middle English from Anglo-Norman vultur, from Old French voutoir, voutre, from Latin vultur, voltur. Displaced native Old English ūf.
Words formed from vulture
Phrases with vulture
Words that rhyme with vulture
Questions about vulture
- What does vulture mean?
- Vulture means any of several carrion-eating birds of the families Accipitridae and Cathartidae.
- What is vulture in Hindi?
- Vulture in Hindi is गिद्ध (giddh). See Vulture meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is vulture?
- Vulture can be a noun, a verb or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce vulture?
- Vulture is pronounced /ˈvʌltʃə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of vulture?
- The plural of vulture is vultures.
Words near vulture in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: vulture (page history and authors); vulture (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); കഴു (Malayalam) (page history and authors); ಕಂಕ (Kannada) (page history and authors); ਗਿਰਝ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); गिद्ध (Nepali) (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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