Bunting

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A light cotton or woolen cloth used for making flags.
  • n. Flags considered as a group.
  • n. Strips of cloth or material usually in the colors of the national flag, used especially as drapery or streamers for festive decoration.
  • n. Any of various birds of the family Fringillidae, having short, cone-shaped bills and brownish or grayish plumage.
  • n. A snug-fitting, hooded sleeping bag of heavy material for infants.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any of various songbirds, mostly of the genus Emberiza, having short bills and brown or gray plumage.
  • v. Present participle of bunt.
  • n. Strips of material used as festive decoration, especially in the colours of the national flag.
  • n. A thin cloth of woven wool from which flags are made; it is light enough to spread in a gentle wind but resistant to fraying in a strong wind.
  • n. Flags considered as a group.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A bird of the genus Emberiza, or of an allied genus, related to the finches and sparrows (family Fringillidæ).
  • n. A thin woolen stuff, used chiefly for flags, colors, and ships' signals.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of pushing, as with the horns or head; butting.
  • n. A game among boys, played with sticks and a small piece of wood cut lengthwise.
  • n. A large piece of timber; a heavy support for machinery or other structures.
  • n. The act of swelling out, as a sail.
  • n. Sifting.
  • n. The popular name of a number of conirostral oscine passerine birds of the genus Emberiza and family Fringillidæ.
  • n. By extension, a name given indefinitely and indiscriminately to a great number of emberizine and fringilline birds of all countries, and also to some birds not of the family Fringillidæ.
  • n. A light woolen stuff very loosely woven.
  • n. Flags, especially a vessel's flags, collectively.
  • Short and thick-set.
  • n. A short and thick-set person.
  • n. The common shrimp, Crangon vulgaris.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a loosely woven fabric used for flags, etc.
  • n. any of numerous seed-eating songbirds of Europe or North America
  • Equivalent
    buntine   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    cloth    fabric    material    textile   
    Cross Reference
    Verb Stem
    bunt   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    affronting    blunting    confronting    fronting    grunting    hunting    shunting   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bandanna    flag    warbler    kerchief    pennant    cockade    wampum    jumpsuits    sitting    calico