mockingbird

1. 1.

   long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds

   SynonymsmockerMimus polyglotktos

   Broaderoscine

   Part ofMimus

Other forms of mockingbird

plural

mockingbirds·

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 mockingbird

What does mockingbird mean?

mockingbird means "long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds".

How many syllables are in mockingbird?

mockingbird has 3 syllables: moc-king-bird. The stress falls on "moc". In IPA it is /ˈmɑkɪŋˌbɝd/.

What is another word for mockingbird?

Close synonyms include mocker, Mimus polyglotktos. 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 mockingbird a common word?

mockingbird 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 mockingbird?

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