bird of minerva

Questions about bird of minerva

What is another word for bird of minerva?

It depends which bird of minerva you mean. In the sense “nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes”, the synonyms are owl, bird of night, hooter. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of bird of minerva?

WordNet records no antonym for bird of minerva. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for bird of minerva come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of bird of minerva

• Full entry for bird of minervaAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for bird of minervaWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.