Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various birds with red plumage, as the cardinal or scarlet tanager.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A name of sundry red or partly red birds. Specifically— The common bullfinch of Europe, Pyrrhula vulgaris.
Wiktionary
- n. Any of several unrelated birds having red plumage, but especially the cardinal.
- n. Any of various red cars formerly used in the New York City subway system.
- n. A train of such cars.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The cardinal bird.
- n. The summer redbird (Piranga rubra).
- n. The scarlet tanager. See tanager.
WordNet 3.0
- n. crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red plumage in the male
- n. the male is bright red with black wings and tail
Examples
“(Reply) (Thread) (Link) redbird on May 9th, 2010 03: 55 pm (UTC)”
“(Reply) (Thread) (Link) redbird on June 1st, 2010 05: 33 pm (UTC)”
“Old bird eyes that redbird, jumpy round rough blackbirds who have the sharper eye.”
“We met the second threshold so quickly (thanks to redbird!) that I totally lost track of time.”
“Edited at 2010-04-29 05: 56 pm UTC (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread) redbird”
“But meanwhile, she -- or someone pretending to be her -- is tweeting like a redbird.”
The Washington Post: Backchannel chatter: Chapman's Moscow tweets
“Suite 88 is still my chocolate source of choice near the hotel, but seabream and I made it to Juliette et Chocolat (after trying and failing with redbird, cattitude, and timprov), and it is certainly worth attention.”
“But the White man had stolen it from Lolla-Wossiky with murders and likker, until Lolla-Wossiky wasn't man enough to have the redbird learn his song or the land fill up his heart.”
“Ta-Kumsaw came out of his redbird trance and heard laughter from the Red village, laughter and singing from the White soldiers inside the fort.”
“White man's metal would be rust; White man's stone work would be low hills and small caves; White man's murders would be wistful, beautiful notes in the song of the redbird -- for the redbird remembered everything, turning it into goodness when it could.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘redbird’.
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Bird birds
Birds that have the word bird in their names. (This list also includes some general descriptions of certain kinds of birds - wading birds, water birds, &c.) For other bird-related fun (especially p...
blackbird, bluebird, bird of paradise, tropicbird, boatswain bird, secretary bird, millerbird, frigatebird, surfbird, kingbird, catbird, bellbird and 69 more...
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Real last names that look like compound nouns.
pennywhistle, drinkwater, goodfellow, applejohn, rainwater, goodfriend, stonecipher, snowball, peacemaker, goodman, brownback, hayslip and 25 more...
hernesheir Regional name for the northern cardinal and the scarlet tanager, among other birds. Jan 12, 2009
john Lampbane, thanks for reminding me of the redbirds, I liked those cars. They're doing good things in retirement, though: a lot of them have been reefed. Pictures here. Oct 28, 2008
lampbane R26, R28, R29, R33 ML, R33 WF, R36, and R36 WF New York City subway cars, painted red to combat graffiti. Oct 28, 2008
bilby The call-note of a redbird from the cedars in the dusk
Woke his happy mate within me to an answer free and fine;
And a sudden angel beckoned from a column of blue smoke --
~Lord, who am I that they should stoop -- these holy folk of thine?
- Karle Wilson Baker, 'Good Company'. Oct 4, 2008