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
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of birdcage
First recorded in 1480–90; bird ( def. ) + cage ( def. )
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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
Like opening a birdcage to let the bird fly out, whilst all the while it’s tethered by the leg, and freedom is only an illusion.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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
In others, birdcages are small prisons for a variety of objects placed inside.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2019
The house on Bartram Road would be cleared of its birdcages after Angelou’s death in 2014.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 18, 2019
Some have trunks and capes, others carry birdcages or silver-topped canes.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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