chimney swift

Questions about chimney swift

What is another word for chimney swift?

It depends which chimney swift you mean. In the sense “American swift that nests in e.g. unused chimneys”, the synonyms are chimney swallow, Chateura pelagica. Across all 1 sense there are 2 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 chimney swift?

WordNet records no antonym for chimney swift. 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 chimney swift 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 chimney swift

• Full entry for chimney swiftAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for chimney swiftWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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