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Definition: Skylark |
SkylarkNoun1. Brown-speckled European lark noted for singing while hovering at a great height. Verb1. Play boisterously; "The children frolicked in the garden"; "the gamboling lambs in the meadows"; "The toddlers romped in the palyroom". 2. Play jokes or romp; play boisterously; "The children were skylarking in the forest". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "skylark" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1803. (references) |
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Literature | Skylark A spree. Skylark among sailors, is to mount the highest yards (called sky-scrapers), and then slide down the ropes for amusement. (See Lark .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Alauda arvensis |
The Skylark (Alauda arvensis) breeds across most of Europe and Asia and in the mountains of north Africa. It is mainly resident in the west of its range, but eastern populations of this passerine bird are more migratory, moving further south in winter. Even in the milder west of its range, many birds move to lowlands and the coast in winter.
This is a bird of open farmland and heath, familiar throughout its range, not least for its song, delivered non-stop in flight from heights of 100m or more when the bird itself is just a dot in the sky.
Like most other larks, this is undistinguished looking species on the ground, mainly brown above and pale below, and with a short blunt erectile crest. In flight it shows a short tail and short broad wings. The tail and the rear edge of the wings are edged with white.
The nest is on the ground, with 3-6 eggs being laid. Food is seeds supplemented with insects in the breeding season.
The Skylark series of four science fiction novels by E. E. Smith features a spaceship of the same name.
The Buick Skylark is a make of car.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Skylark."
Synonyms: SkylarkSynonyms: cavort (v), disport (v), frisk (v), frolic (v), gambol (v), lark (v), lark about (v), rollick (v), romp (v), run around (v), sport (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Skylark |
| English words defined with "skylark": Field lark ♦ Wood lark. (references) |
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Lyrics | She rules her life like a fine skylark (Rhiannon; performing artist: FLEETWOOD MAC) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Skylark (1941) | |
Song Titles | Wildflower (performing artist: Skylark) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Upon my heart, he has a skylark prisoned in his throat! the masterplayer exclaimed. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Kahlil Gibran | You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing? |
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| "Skylark" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 74.07% of the time. "Skylark" is used about 27 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) | 74.07% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Noun (proper) | 18.52% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 7.41% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 27 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Japan | Skylark Co., Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "skylark": American skylark ♦ skylark about. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "skylark": skylark-like. | |
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| 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. |
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Albanian | laureshë (lark). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مزح (banter, banting, chaff, fool, frolic, fun, in play, joke, kid, lark, make fun of, rag, trifle, waggle), قنبره طائر (lark), قبرة (lark, woodlark), خربش (doodle, scrawl, scribble). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | полска чучулига (titlark). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 雲雀 (lark), 云雀. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | skřivan (lark, tit, titlark), blbnout (clown, fool about, horse about, piffle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kiuru (lark). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | faire le fou, chahuter, alouette des champs (sky lark), alouette. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Feldlerche (sky lark). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γαλιάντρα (talkative person), είδοσ κορύδαλου (titlark, woodlark), διασκεδάζω (amuse, beguile, disport, enjoy, entertain, frolic, gallivant, have fun, I enjoy myself, jollify, junket, recreate, revel, sport). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל"ת"ולל (dissipate, get out of hand, go to town, racket, revel, roister), ל"שתובב (frolic, misbehave, romp), ל"שתעשע (dally, entertain, fool about with, fool around with, lark, play about, sport, toy), עפרו י (lark), זרעית "ש"". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | pacsirta (lark, skyer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | allodola (lark, meadow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 雲雀 , スエズ運河 (multistory parking garage, scarf, scarlet, scenic mountain road, scout, skirt, sky, sky blue, sky mate, sky restaurant, skydiver, skydiving, skyjack, Skylab, sky-laboratory, skylight, skyline, skyscraper, squash, student discount air ticket, Suez Canal, sweat), 告天子 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ひばり, スカイラーク . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 종다리 (Lark). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cloie (act, boil, bubble, charade, enact, event, extemporise, game, match, monkey, perform, performance, play, represent, sport). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ylarkskay cotovia (lark, titlark). (various references) hârjoni (gambol), ciocârlie (lark, Laverock). (various references) жаворонок (lark). (various references) praviti ludorije (caper), poljska ševa (titlark). (various references) hacer travesuras (lark, lark about, lark around, monkey), divertirse por completo (dally, debauch, lark), alondra (black cap, lark). (various references) sånglärka, rasa (bluster, fall down, fulminate, gallop, rage, rave, romp, tumble). (various references) นกชนิ"หนึ่ง (roadrunner). (various references) tarla kuşu, muziplik yapmak (have a lark, joke, lark, lark about, lark around, play pranks on smb.), şamata yapmak (make a noise, make whoopee, rag, roister), çocuk gibi oynamak. (various references) togaя (skylark (bird)). (various references) жайворонок (lark), бавитися (fun), пустувати (caper, fool about, footle, piddle, roil, rollick). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Alauda arvensis, RM:lodola da prada. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "skylark": skylarked, skylarker, skylarkers, skylarking, skylarks. (additional references) | |
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"Skylark" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Schylake, skypark. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "skylark" (pronounced skī"lÄ'rk) |
| 4 | -l Ä' r k | meadowlark. |
| 3 | -Ä' r k | aardvark, ballpark, benchmark, birthmark, earmark, hallmark, landmark, matriarch, monarch, oligarch, patriarch, pockmark, postmark, trademark, watermark. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-k-k-l-r-s-y" | |
-2 letters: aryls, kyaks, kyars, larks, larky, sarky. | |
-3 letters: alky, arks, aryl, kays, kyak, kyar, laky, lark, lars, lays, rays, ryas, sark, slay, yaks. | |
-4 letters: als, ark, ars, ask, ays, kas, kay, lar, las, lay, ras, ray, rya, sal, say, ska, sky, sly, yak, yar. | |
-5 letters: al, ar, as, ay, ka, la, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-k-k-l-r-s-y" | |
+1 letter: skylarks. | |
+2 letters: skylarked, skylarker. | |
+3 letters: skylarkers, skylarking. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6B 79 6C 61 72 6B |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.- -.--. .-.. .- .-. -.- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101011 01111001 01101100 01100001 01110010 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S k y l a r k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006B 0079 006C 0061 0072 006B |
| 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)53779178678477 |
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