birds
SayBURDZ/bɜɹdz/UK/bɜːdz/
- 1Plural of bird.
Several birds gathered on the wire as the sun set.
Migratory birds travel thousands of miles each year.
Note
A regular plural, made with a plain -s and taking a plural verb: the birds are nesting. It carries every meaning of bird, not only the feathered one. In Irish and British colloquial speech it can mean girls or women, and in slang, men or fellows. So a line like "the birds were out tonight" may have nothing to do with wildlife. Context, not form, tells the meanings apart.
birds is a form of bird
bird, noun: A warm-blooded, feathered animal with wings and a beaked mouth that lays eggs and is usually able to fly. Full entry
- Forms
- birdbirds plural
- Spelling
- bird → birds: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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