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Definition: Fieldfare |
FieldfareNoun1. Medium-sized Eurasian thrush seen chiefly in winter. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fieldfare" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references) |
Etymology: Fieldfare \Field"fare`\, noun. [from Old English expression feldfare, Anglo-Saxon feldfare; field faran to travel.]. (references) |
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| Turdus pilaris |
The Fieldfare Turdus pilaris is a member of the Thrush family Turdidae.
It breeds in woodland and scrub in northern Europe and Asia. It is strongly migratory, with many northern birds moving south during the winter. It is a very rare breeder in Great Britain and Ireland, but winters in large numbers in these countries.
It nests in trees, laying several eggs in a neat nest. Unusually for a thrush, they often nest in small colonies, possibly for protection from large crows. Migrating birds and wintering birds often form large flocks, often with Redwings.
The Fieldfare is a large thrush. It is omnivorous, eating a wide range of insects and worms in summer, and berries in winter.
The sexes of Fieldfare are similar, with plain brown backs and grey rump and rear head. Underwings are white. Underparts are spotted, with a reddish wash to the breast.
The male has a simple chattering song, and a chattering flight and alarm call.
public domain image from a 1905 field guide
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Synonym: FieldfareSynonym: snowbird (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Fieldfare |
| English words defined with "fieldfare": Felltare ♦ Screech bird, Screech thrush, Shredcook, Stormcock ♦ Veltfare. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "fieldfare": Veltfare. (references) |
| "Fieldfare" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 81.40% of the time. "Fieldfare" is used about 43 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 (proper) | 81.4% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Noun (singular) | 13.95% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 4.65% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 43 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "fieldfare"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | السمنة طائر. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хвойнов дрозд. (various references) | |
Czech | pták (bird, frigate-bird, fulmar, grebe, guillemot, gutter-bird, Sheldrake, shrike, skua). (various references) | |
Danish | sjagger. (various references) | |
Dutch | kramsvogel. (various references) | |
Finnish | rastas (thrush), räkättirastas. (various references) | |
French | tia-tia, litorne, grive litorne. (various references) | |
German | Wacholderdrossel, Krammetsvogel. (various references) | |
Hungarian | fenyvesmadár. (various references) | |
Italian | cesena. (various references) | |
Manx | ushag y traghtee, ushag y sniaghtee, dreeym gorrym. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ieldfarefay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tordo zorzal, tordo zornal, tordeia (mistle thrush). (various references) | |
Russian | дрозд-рябинник. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | drozak. (various references) | |
Spanish | zorzal real, zorzal. (various references) | |
Swedish | björktrast. (various references) | |
Turkish | ardıçkuşu (Mavis, ousel, ouzel, song thrush). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | дрізд-ялівник. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | RM:tursch giagl, Turdus pilaris. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fieldfare": fieldfares. (additional references) | |
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"Fieldfare" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Fieldair. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-f-f-i-l-r" | |
-2 letters: daffier, defiler, federal, fielder, filaree, leadier, leafier, raffled, refiled, riffled. | |
-3 letters: aedile, aeried, afield, ariled, deafer, dealer, dearie, defier, defile, deflea, derail, dialer, differ, faerie, failed, faired, fardel, farfel, feared, feriae, ferial, ferlie, flared, laired, leader, leafed, lieder, liefer, raffle, railed, rediae, redial, reffed, refile, relaid, relied, relief, riffed, riffle, rifled. | |
-4 letters: aerie. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-f-f-i-l-r" | |
+1 letter: fieldfares. | |
+3 letters: differential. | |
+4 letters: differentials. | |
+5 letters: differentiable, differentially. | |
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