Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various birds with red plumage, as the cardinal or scarlet tanager.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name of sundry red or partly red birds.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The cardinal bird.
- noun The summer redbird (
Piranga rubra ). - noun The scarlet tanager. See
tanager .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several unrelated
birds havingred plumage , but especially thecardinal . - noun Any of various red
cars formerly used in the New York City subway system. - noun A
train of such cars.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red plumage in the male
- noun the male is bright red with black wings and tail
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Examples
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(Reply) (Thread) (Link) redbird on June 1st, 2010 05: 33 pm (UTC)
Not so good news michaeldthomas 2010
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We met the second threshold so quickly (thanks to redbird!) that I totally lost track of time.
Ghosha (funded!) shweta_narayan 2010
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We met the second threshold so quickly (thanks to redbird!) that I totally lost track of time.
Ghosha (funded!) shweta_narayan 2010
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(Reply) (Thread) (Link) redbird on May 9th, 2010 03: 55 pm (UTC)
Why I'm deleting my Facebook account wolflahti 2010
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Edited at 2010-04-29 05: 56 pm UTC (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread) redbird
mrissa: I'm not proud. Or tired. Well, kind of tired. mrissa 2010
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Old bird eyes that redbird, jumpy round rough blackbirds who have the sharper eye.
30x30 Paul de Denus 2011
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Suite 88 is still my chocolate source of choice near the hotel, but seabream and I made it to Juliette et Chocolat (after trying and failing with redbird, cattitude, and timprov), and it is certainly worth attention.
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway tanac 2008
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But the White man had stolen it from Lolla-Wossiky with murders and likker, until Lolla-Wossiky wasn't man enough to have the redbird learn his song or the land fill up his heart.
He Don't Know Him 2010
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Ta-Kumsaw came out of his redbird trance and heard laughter from the Red village, laughter and singing from the White soldiers inside the fort.
He Don't Know Him 2010
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But meanwhile, she -- or someone pretending to be her -- is tweeting like a redbird.
bilby commented on the word redbird
The call-note of a redbird from the cedars in the dusk
Woke his happy mate within me to an answer free and fine;
And a sudden angel beckoned from a column of blue smoke --
~Lord, who am I that they should stoop -- these holy folk of thine?
- Karle Wilson Baker, 'Good Company'.
October 4, 2008
lampbane commented on the word redbird
R26, R28, R29, R33 ML, R33 WF, R36, and R36 WF New York City subway cars, painted red to combat graffiti.
October 28, 2008
john commented on the word redbird
Lampbane, thanks for reminding me of the redbirds, I liked those cars. They're doing good things in retirement, though: a lot of them have been reefed. Pictures here.
October 28, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word redbird
Regional name for the northern cardinal and the scarlet tanager, among other birds.
January 12, 2009