bird sanctuary

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   a building where birds are kept

   Synonymsaviaryvolary

   Broaderbuilding

Questions about bird sanctuary

What does bird sanctuary mean?

bird sanctuary means "a building where birds are kept".

What is another word for bird sanctuary?

Close synonyms include aviary, volary. 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 bird sanctuary a common word?

bird sanctuary 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.