Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

night bird

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.59 in modern English

Syllables: night bird
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

1

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A bird that is active in the night; a nocturnal bird.

noun

A human denizen of night.

Example Sentences

"Some night-bird, belike, or a sea-gull squalling below the headland."
"Far out in the scrubs a solitary nightbird was calling."
"Bradley assenting, went with him into an early public-house, haunted by unsavoury smells of musty hay and stale straw, where returning carts, farmers' men, gaunt dogs, fowls of a beery breed, and certain human night-birds fluttering home to roost, were solacing themselves after their several manners; and where not one of the night-birds hovering about the sloppy bar failed to discern at a glance in the passion-wasted night-bird with respectable feathers, the worst night-bird of all."

Inflected Forms

night birds (plural) nightbird (alternative)

Questions

What does night bird mean?: A bird that is active in the night; a nocturnal bird.

How to pronounce night bird

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