canaries
Saykuh-NAIR-eez/kəˈnɛəɹiz/
- 1Plural of canary. Use it when you mean more than one.
Breeders bring their best canaries to the regional bird show every spring.
My grandmother kept two canaries in a cage by the kitchen window.
- 2The form of canary used after he, she or it in the present.
Our team canaries every update on a few servers first.
She canaries each new feature with a small group of users.
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canaries is a form of canary
canary, noun: A small songbird, usually yellow, that first came from the Canary Islands. Full entry
- Forms
- canarycanaries plural
- Spelling
- canary → canaries: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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