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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A bird, especially one of the suborder Oscines of passerine birds, having a melodious song or call.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A bird having a melodious song or call.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. any bird having a musical call

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  • uselessness So there's this guy and he's posting spam links on Wordie, can we ban his account? Oct 11, 2007

  • john Sorry skipvia, we must have been commenting simultaneously, I hadn't seen your (sweet) Sky King reference yet. I was referring to the iron fist of Constable uselessness ;-) Oct 10, 2007

  • uselessness Bwahahahaha. Oct 10, 2007

  • reesetee Probably all. ;-)

    This is also a word for a small bird, usually in the Passeriformes Order (perching birds). But you knew that. Oct 10, 2007

  • skipvia Are you referring to Wordie, this discussion, or me? Oct 10, 2007

  • john Oh jebus. I have created a monster. Oct 10, 2007

  • skipvia Also the name of Sky King's plane. Oct 10, 2007

  • uselessness Hey, that is stylish! But... flagged. Wait 'til John hears about this, you spammer! Oct 10, 2007

  • john A stylish open source media player, currently under development. Oct 10, 2007

‘songbird’ has been looked up 1142 times, added to 15 lists, commented on 9 times, and has a Scrabble score of 12.