redstart

1. 1.

   flycatching warbler of eastern North America the male having bright orange on sides and wings and tail

   SynonymsAmerican redstartSetophaga ruticilla

   Broaderflycatching warbler
2. 2.

   European songbird with a reddish breast and tail; related to Old World robins

   Synonymsredtail

   Broaderthrush

   Part ofPhoenicurus

Other forms of redstart

plural

redstarts·

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 redstart

What does redstart mean?

redstart means "flycatching warbler of eastern North America the male having bright orange on sides and wings and tail". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in redstart?

redstart has 2 syllables: red-start. The stress falls on "red".

What is another word for redstart?

Close synonyms include American redstart, Setophaga ruticilla, redtail. 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 redstart a common word?

redstart 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.