great tit

noun

1. an Old World titmouse, Parus major, yellowish green above with white cheeks.

great tit

noun

1. a large common Eurasian tit, Parus major, with yellow-and-black underparts and a black-and-white head

Word History and Origins

Origin of great tit¹

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

One story in particular I find, of a Great Tit having been placed in a well-filled aviary.

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A much more amiable little fellow, the great tit, has just added his modest assurance that spring is coming.

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Now we get on the Duke's Drive, and there, on a branch of a poplar tree, I see the great tit.

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If the great tit cannot get out of its prison, it commits suicide.

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But when in the afternoon we went to look at the captives, there was not a great tit among them all.

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