What does canary bird mean?

canary bird means "any of several small Old World finches".

What is another word for canary bird?

Close synonyms include canary. 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 bird a common word?

canary bird 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.

Canary bird — meaning and 1 synonym

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
any of several small Old World finches
Synonymscanary
Broaderfinch
Narrowercommon canary
Part ofSerinus

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What does canary bird mean?: canary bird means "any of several small Old World finches".

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