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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
dunlin is a noun meaning "small common sandpiper that breeds in northern or Arctic regions and winters in southern United States or Mediterranean regions". It carries one recorded sense.
small common sandpiper that breeds in northern or Arctic regions and winters in southern United States or Mediterranean regions
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dunlin come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.