english sparrow

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   small hardy brown-and-grey bird native to Europe

   Synonymshouse sparrowPasser domesticus

   Broadersparrow

   Part ofPasser

Questions about english sparrow

What does english sparrow mean?

english sparrow means "small hardy brown-and-grey bird native to Europe".

What is another word for english sparrow?

Close synonyms include house sparrow, Passer domesticus. 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 english sparrow a common word?

english sparrow 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.