barn swallow

1. 1.

   common swallow of North America and Europe that nests in barns etc.

   Synonymschimney swallowHirundo rustica

   Broaderswallow

   Part ofHirundo

Questions about barn swallow

What does barn swallow mean?

barn swallow means "common swallow of North America and Europe that nests in barns etc.".

What is another word for barn swallow?

Close synonyms include chimney swallow, Hirundo rustica. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is barn swallow a common word?

barn swallow is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.