bird of night

Questions about bird of night

What is another word for bird of night?

It depends which bird of night 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 Minerva, 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 night?

WordNet records no antonym for bird of night. 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 night 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 night

• Full entry for bird of nightAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for bird of nightWhether 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.