birdnest

1. 1.

   nest where birds lay their eggs and hatch their young

   Synonymsbird's nestbird nest

   Broadernest

   Narroweraerie

1. 1.

   gather birdnests

   “They went birdnesting in the early morning”

   Synonymsbird-nest

   Broadergather

Other forms of birdnest

plural

birdnests·

past tense

birdnested·

present participle

birdnesting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about birdnest

What does birdnest mean?

birdnest means "nest where birds lay their eggs and hatch their young". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in birdnest?

birdnest has 2 syllables: bird-nest. The stress falls on "bird".

What is another word for birdnest?

Close synonyms include bird's nest, bird nest, bird-nest. 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 birdnest a common word?

birdnest 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.