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Definition: Birdsong |
BirdsongNoun1. The characteristic sound produced by a bird; "a bird will not learn its song unless it hears it at an early age". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "birdsong" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1919. (references) |
Synonyms: BirdsongSynonyms: birdcall (n), call (n), song (n). (additional references) |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | With Captain Buck Owings and with Sheriff Giles Birdsong he was closeted perhaps ten minutes.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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 | Canary; canaries; birdsong; tweet; birdcall. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Birdsong" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.31% of the time. "Birdsong" is used about 52 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 92.31% | 48 | 49,194 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.85% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.92% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 1.92% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 52 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "birdsong" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Birdsong | Last name | 2,000 | 5,376 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Birdsong, AR (town, FIPS 6430) |
Expression using "birdsong": dawn picnic to hear first birdsong. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "birdsong": birdsong-studded. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
birdsong | 45 | birdsong family | 3 |
birdsong todd | 19 | birdsong realty | 3 |
birdsong estate real | 12 | birdsong mary | 3 |
birdsong cindy | 9 | edwin birdsong | 3 |
birdsong peanut | 8 | birdsong faulks sebastian | 3 |
birdsong bob | 7 | birdsong keith | 2 |
birdsong marina | 7 | birdsong estate.com real | 2 |
otis birdsong | 7 | birdsong center nature | 2 |
birdsong identiflyer | 7 | birdsong walter | 2 |
birdsong resort | 6 | birdsong lyrics | 2 |
birdsong ricky | 6 | birdsong finish | 2 |
birdsong identifier | 4 | ||
birdsong finish | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "birdsong"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Swedish | gökotta (dawn picnic to hear first birdsong). (various references) | |
Thai | เสียงร้องเป็นเพลงของนก. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "birdsong": birdsongs. (additional references) | |
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"Birdsong" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bildeston, Biodesign, Birdston, bridesong, Bridson, byrdsian, byrdsong. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "birdsong" (pronounced ber"dsô'ng) |
| 3 | -s ô' ng | plainsong. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: songbird. | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-g-i-n-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: bodings, borings, sorbing. | |
-2 letters: bingos, boding, boring, brings, doings, dosing, gibson, girons, grinds, grison, groins, orbing, robing, robins, rosing, signor, soring. | |
-3 letters: binds, bingo, birds, bison, boing, bonds, bongs, brigs, bring, brins, brios, dingo, dings, doing, dongs, dribs, girds, girns, giron, giros, grids, grind, grins, groin, irons, noirs, noris, ornis, rinds, rings, robin. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-g-i-n-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: adsorbing, birdsongs, boardings, desorbing, disrobing, signboard, songbirds. | |
+2 letters: bringdowns, signboards. | |
+3 letters: beshrouding, bodysurfing, broadsiding, forebodings, springboard. | |
+4 letters: bedcoverings, boardsailing, bowdlerising, broadcasting, crossbanding, fingerboards, mockingbirds, nonbreedings, outbreedings, sailboarding, snowboarding, springboards, starboarding, surfboarding. | |
+5 letters: bildungsroman, boardinghouse, boardsailings, crossbandings, crossbreeding, neighborhoods, sailboardings, skateboarding, snowboardings, storyboarding, subordinating. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 69 72 64 73 6F 6E 67 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .. .-. -.. ... --- -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101001 01110010 01100100 01110011 01101111 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B i r d s o n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0069 0072 0064 0073 006F 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3675847085818073 |
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