canary

1. 1.

   having the color of a canary; of a light to moderate yellow

   Synonymscanary-yellow

   Similarchromatic

Other forms of canary

plural

canaries·

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 canary

What does canary mean?

canary means "someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in canary?

canary has 3 syllables: ca-nar-y. The stress falls on "nar". In IPA it is /kəˈnɛɹi/.

What is another word for canary?

Close synonyms include fink, snitch, snitcher, stoolpigeon, stool pigeon. 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 canary a common word?

canary is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with canary?

41 words rhyme with canary. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.