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# songbird

noun (a songbird, songbirds)

«songbird» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A songbird is a small bird that sings tuneful songs, such as a robin, blackbird, thrush, nightingale or wren. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/songbird/#m1)
2. (informal) A person, usually a woman, with a lovely singing voice is sometimes called a songbird. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/songbird/#m2)

### In the lessons

In science and nature lessons songbirds are a big group of perching birds; they sing to mark their territory and to find a mate, mostly in spring mornings (the «dawn chorus»). Gardeners put up feeders and nest boxes to help songbirds. In stories, songbirds show a happy, peaceful morning.

### Examples

- A songbird was singing on the fence at dawn. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/songbird/#x1)
- Robins and blackbirds are songbirds. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/songbird/#x2)
- We hung a feeder to help the songbirds in winter. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/songbird/#x3)
- Male songbirds sing to say «this is my patch». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/songbird/#x4)
- Cats catch many songbirds in gardens. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/songbird/#x5)
- The concert star was called the nation's songbird. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/songbird/#x6)
- The dawn chorus is lots of songbirds singing together. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/songbird/#x7)

### Note

Countable, one word. Not every bird is a songbird: ducks, owls and eagles are not. Birds that sing are usually the males.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «songbird» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/songbird/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«songbird» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/songbird.html) on Mova free.