brood hen

1. 1.

   a domestic hen ready to brood

   Synonymsbroodybroody hensetting hensitter

   Broaderhen

Questions about brood hen

What does brood hen mean?

brood hen means "a domestic hen ready to brood".

What is another word for brood hen?

Close synonyms include broody, broody hen, setting hen, sitter. 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 brood hen a common word?

brood hen is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.