Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Murmuring; discontent; grumbling.
- noun In falconry, a gathering of starlings.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The act of murmuring; a murmur.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An act or instance of
murmuring . - noun A
flock ofstarlings .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech
Etymologies
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Examples
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Starlings are great virtuosi, wonderful mimics as well as splendid singers, and incorporate so many different sounds into their songs that a flock of them is called a murmuration.
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Thousands of birds, known as a murmuration, are currently roosting in the Obridge area of Taunton and County Gazette photographer Geoff Hall (pictured) took the once-in-a-lifetime shot from the Obridge Link.
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Thousands of birds, known as a murmuration, are currently roosting in the Obridge area of Taunton and County Gazette photographer Geoff Hall (pictured) took the once-in-a-lifetime shot from the Obridge Link.
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Thousands of birds, known as a murmuration, are currently roosting in the Obridge area of Taunton and County Gazette photographer Geoff Hall (pictured) took the once-in-a-lifetime shot from the Obridge Link.
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A starling flock like this is called a murmuration, a word that perfectly describes the rustle of thousands of pairs of wings.
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A starling flock like this is called a murmuration, a word that perfectly describes the rustle of thousands of pairs of wings.
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'murmuration' make fantastical shapes as the flock wheel and dive through the air.
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'murmuration' make fantastical shapes as the flock wheel and dive through the air.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Don Tapscott has written persuasively about the mechanism and culture of collaboration, and even produced a wonderful video on the notion of weak -- even unintelligent -- signals that result in glorious patterns of starling murmuration.
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Don Tapscott has written persuasively about the mechanism and culture of collaboration, and even produced a wonderful video on the notion of weak -- even unintelligent -- signals that result in glorious patterns of starling murmuration.
skipvia commented on the word murmuration
See murmuration of starlings
November 16, 2007
slienert commented on the word murmuration
When one watches a murmuration of starlings fly over a lake synchronized en masse, the next question has to be, "I wonder if there is a murmuration of trout swimming below?"
January 25, 2014