noun
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any passerine bird of the suborder Oscines, having highly developed vocal organs and, in most, a musical call
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any bird having a musical call
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Etymology
Origin of songbird
Example Sentences
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Outside his door, an 8-by-12-foot American flag snapped loudly in the wind whipping through his Dixon neighborhood, down streets named Songbird, Honeybee and Blossom.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2025
Together, they duetted on Stop Dragging My Heart Around and Landslide, while Styles wore an embroidered songbird badge, referring to McVie's track Songbird from the 1977 album, Rumours.
From BBC • Jul. 15, 2024
Their concerts would often conclude with "Songbird," McVie's plaintive, mournful contribution to "Rumours."
From Salon • Nov. 30, 2022
By neighbors’ accounts, Songbird Lane was a quiet country street where the mobile homes’ residents mostly kept to themselves.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 17, 2022
"It looks to me as if he might make Minnie break with Songbird if that money wasn't recovered."
From The Rover Boys on a Tour or Last Days at Brill College by Stratemeyer, Edward
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