robin

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UK /ˈɹɒ.bɪn/ US /ˈɹɑ.bɪn/

noun 5name 3

Collocations

ADJ.

adorable, alive, cute, loved, old, pretty

The old robin returned to our garden every spring without fail.

VERB + ROBIN

call, called, cross, domesticated, like, noticed, startled

I noticed a robin hopping around in the garden this morning.

ROBIN + NOUN

batman's, boy, england, friend, friends, hood, instance, poet's

Batman's robin helped him fight crime in Gotham City every night.

PREP.

between, from, on, with

A robin perched on the fence post and sang loudly every morning.

ADV.

only, really

I only saw a robin in my garden once last winter.

Definitions

noun

Any of various passerine birds (about 100 species) of the families Muscicapidae, Turdidae and Petroicidae (formerly Eopsaltriidae), typically with a red breast.

As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.

Any of various passerine birds (about 100 species) of the families Muscicapidae, Turdidae and Petroicidae (formerly Eopsaltriidae), typically with a red breast.

A trimming in front of a dress.

noun

A toxalbumin obtained from the locust tree.

name

A unisex given name.

They ſay hee is already in the Forreſt of Arden, and a many merry men with him; and there liue like the old Robin Hood of England

This waly boy will be nae coof: /I think we'll call him Robin./ Robin was a rovin' boy, / Rantin', rovin', rantin', rovin', /Robin was a rovin' boy, / Rantin', rovin' Robin.

A unisex given name.

"We'll name her Robin," her mother said, and it was as though at her words something of that spring and the bird's song and his gay and friendly and impudent spirit entered into the child.

In March 1953, a month after Jeb was born, the Bush family received the devastating news that Robin had leukemia. A local doctor told the Bushes that doctors had never seen a white blood cell count that high and there was nothing they could do for her.

A surname originating as a patronymic.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — small Old World songbird with a reddish breast

redbreast

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

around Robin Hood's barn

the long way around; a roundabout or circuitous route

Example Bank

As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.

Wiktionary

They ſay hee is already in the Forreſt of Arden, and a many merry men with him; and there liue like the old Robin Hood of England

Wiktionary

This waly boy will be nae coof: /I think we'll call him Robin./ Robin was a rovin' boy, / Rantin', rovin', rantin', rovin', /Robin was a rovin' boy, / Rantin', rovin' Robin.

Wiktionary

Some names simply aren't appropriate after a while. Say you were called Robin, for instance. Well that's a perfectly good monicker up to the age of about nine, but pretty soon you'd have to do somethi

Wiktionary

We are familiar with the legend of Robin Hood.

Tatoeba · #23111

Robin looks very cute when he's sleeping.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, robin is marked as historical. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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