shore bird

Questions about shore bird

What is another word for shore bird?

It depends which shore bird you mean. In the sense “any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries”, the synonyms are shorebird, limicoline bird. 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 shore bird?

WordNet records no antonym for shore bird. 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 shore bird 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 shore bird

• Full entry for shore birdAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for shore birdWhether 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.