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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024spar•row /ˈspæroʊ/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Birdsany of a group of small songbirds, usually dull gray-brown with plain or streaked breasts of a lighter color.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024spar•row (spar′ō),USA pronunciation n. - Birdsany of numerous American finches of the family Emberizinae. Cf. chipping sparrow, song sparrow.
- Birdsany member of the Old World genus Passer, formerly thought to be closely related to the weaverbirds but now placed in their own family, Passeridae.
- Birds, British Terms[Brit.]the house sparrow.
- Birdsany of several other unrelated small birds. Cf. Java sparrow, hedge sparrow.
- Military(cap.) a 12-ft. (4-m), all-weather, radar-guided U.S. air-to-air missile with an 88-lb. (40-kg) high-explosive warhead.
- bef. 900; Middle English sparowe, Old English spearwa; cognate with Gothic sparwa, Old Norse spǫrr
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: sparrow /ˈspærəʊ/ n - any weaverbird of the genus Passer and related genera, esp the house sparrow, having a brown or grey plumage and feeding on seeds or insects
- US Canadian any of various North American finches, such as the chipping sparrow (Spizella passerina), that have a dullish streaked plumage
See also hedge sparrow, tree sparrowEtymology: Old English spearwa; related to Old Norse spörr, Old High German sparo |