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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024tern1 /tɜrn/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Birdsa web-footed water bird resembling a gull.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024tern1 (tûrn),USA pronunciation n. - Birdsany of numerous aquatic birds of the subfamily Sterninae of the family Laridae, related to the gulls but usually having a more slender body and bill, smaller feet, a long, deeply forked tail, and a more graceful flight, esp. those of the genus Sterna, as S. hirundo (common tern,) of Eurasia and America, having white, black, and gray plumage.
- Danish terne or Norwegian terna; cognate with Old Norse therna
- 1670–80
- a set of three.
- three winning numbers drawn together in a lottery.
- a prize won by drawing these.
- Latin ternus, singular of ternī three each, triad, akin to ter thrice; see three
- Italian terno
- Middle French
- Middle English terne 1300–50
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: tern /tɜːn/ n - any aquatic bird of the subfamily Sterninae, having a forked tail, long narrow wings, a pointed bill, and a typically black-and-white plumage: family Laridae (gulls, etc), order Charadriiformes
Etymology: 18th Century: from Old Norse therna; related to Norwegian terna, Swedish tärna |