birdcage
Americannoun
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birdcages
plural
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a cage for confining birds.
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something that resembles a birdcage in form.
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Slang. the airspace over an airport, together with the airplanes in it.
noun
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a wire or wicker cage in which captive birds are kept
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any object of a similar shape, construction, or purpose
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an area on a racecourse where horses parade before a race
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informal a second-hand car dealer's yard
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of birdcage
First recorded in 1480–90; bird ( def. ) + cage ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Plenty more dinosaurs will arrive in the film’s two-hour-plus running time: swooping Quetzalcoatlus, splashing Mosasaurus, frilled Dilophosaurus and a bitty Whoknowswhatasaurus that Ali’s Duncan keeps in a bamboo birdcage by his boat dock in Suriname.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2025
In a rather tragic detail that feels straight out of a fable, Tiny Pinocchio was kept in a decorative metal birdcage when people visited the house to prevent him from accidentally getting squished.
From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2023
During one moment of digging, Volunteer Bekir Bicer uncovered a crushed birdcage, he said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2023
There's a wooden birdcage with chicken figurines, an ode to where he came from, and the evolution of his ambition.
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2020
Above the desk, there was a birdcage, rocking back and forth.
From "Raymie Nightingale" by Kate DiCamillo
Campione has become known for her unique specialism in dolls, doll houses, automata, birdcages and corkscrews.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2024
When birds disappear, people open their birdcages and release their confused pets up to the sky.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 6, 2019
Vasquez, 54, had become known as the Birdman of East Village for his daily walks around downtown and Balboa Park with a tower of three birdcages strapped to his back.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2019
There are fin-de-siècle birdcages where car and shaft are unenclosed but for ornate wrought-iron gates and the ride brings a pleasant rush of vertigo.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2017
We had to move her birdcages around according to the light.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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