osprey

1. 1.

   large harmless hawk found worldwide that feeds on fish and builds a bulky nest often occupied for years

   Synonymsfish hawkfish eaglesea eaglePandion haliaetus

   Broaderhawk

   Part ofPandion

Other forms of osprey

plural

ospreys·

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 osprey

What does osprey mean?

osprey means "large harmless hawk found worldwide that feeds on fish and builds a bulky nest often occupied for years".

How many syllables are in osprey?

osprey has 2 syllables: o-sprey. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /ˈɔspɹi/.

What is another word for osprey?

Close synonyms include fish hawk, fish eagle, sea eagle, Pandion haliaetus. 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 osprey a common word?

osprey is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.