bluebird
pronunciation
How to pronounce bluebird in British English:
UK [ˈblu:bɜ:d]
How to pronounce bluebird in American English:
US [ˈblubɜrd]
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- Noun:
- fruit-eating mostly brilliant blue songbird of the East Indies
- blue North American songbird
Word Origin
- bluebird (n.)
- also blue-bird, North American warbler-like bird, 1680s, from blue (1) in reference to its plumage + bird (n.1). Figurative use in bluebird of happiness is from 1909 play romance "l'Oiseau bleu," literally "The Blue Bird," by Belgian dramatist and poet Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949).
Example
- 1. Owl and bluebird visited each other in the evening .
- 2. The bluebird carries the sky on his back .
- 3. Prot told me to find the bluebird of happiness .
- 4. Owl helped bluebird move into her new home .
- 5. Very lovely black beak bluebird granted mind !