Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In music, one who sings the leading part. [F. accenteur.] In ornithology: [capitalized] A genus of passerine birds, family Sylviidæ, subfamily Accentorinæ.
  • noun A name sometimes applied to the golden-crowned thrush or oven-bird, Siurus auricapillus, a well-known passerine bird of the United States, of the family Sylvicolidæ.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Mus.), obsolete One who sings the leading part; the director or leader.
  • noun (Zoöl.) A genus of European birds (so named from their sweet notes), including the hedge warbler. In America sometimes applied to the water thrushes.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun zoology Prunella, a genus of European birds (so named from their sweet notes), including the hedge warbler. In America sometimes applied to the water thrushes.
  • noun music, obsolete One who sings the leading part; the director or leader.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun small sparrow-like songbird of mountainous regions of Eurasia

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Examples

  • Passerines such as the black-throated thrush (Turdus ruficollis) or robin accentor (Prunella rubeuloides) winter in this ecoregion.

    Karakoram-West Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe 2008

  • The park is important for a number of species breeding at high altitudes, such as blood pheasant Ithaginis cruentus, robin accentor Prunella rubeculoides, white-throated redstart Phoenicurus schisticeps, grandala Grandala coelicolor and several rosefinches.

    Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal 2008

  • Again, his mysterious "night warbler," to which he so often alludes, was one of our common everyday birds which most school-children know, namely, the oven-bird, or wood-accentor, yet to Thoreau it was a sort of phantom bird upon which his imagination loved to dwell.

    The Last Harvest John Burroughs 1879

  • And I mean these are long time industry focus, veterans, accentor type of or other big consulting folks with some industry background that we are really excited about.

    unknown title 2008

  • Sylviidae Friendly bush-warbler Bradypterus accentor

    Borneo montane rain forests 2007

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