war·bler

(wôr′blər)

1. Any of various small New World songbirds of the family Parulidae, many of which have brightly colored plumage or markings, as the redstart and the yellowthroat. Also called wood warbler.

2. Any of various small, often brownish or grayish Old World songbirds of the family Silviidae, as the blackcap and the whitethroat.

3. Music One that warbles; a singer.

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warbler

(ˈwɔːblə)

1. (Music, other) a person or thing that warbles

2. (Animals) any small active passerine songbird of the Old World subfamily Sylviinae: family Muscicapidae. They have a cryptic plumage and slender bill and are arboreal insectivores

3. (Animals) Also called: wood warbler any small bird of the American family Parulidae, similar to the Old World forms but often brightly coloured

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

war•bler

(ˈwɔr blər)

n.

1. Also called wood warbler. any of numerous small New World songbirds of the subfamily Parulinae (family Emberizidae), many species of which are brightly colored.

2. any of numerous small, chiefly Old World songbirds of the subfamily Sylviinae (family Muscicapidae).

3. a person or thing that warbles.

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	warbler - a singer; usually a singer who adds embellishments to the song singer, vocalist, vocalizer, vocaliser - a person who sings
	2.	warbler - a small active songbird oscine, oscine bird - passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus gnatcatcher - very small North American and South American warblers kinglet - small birds resembling warblers but having some of the habits of titmice Old World warbler, true warbler - small active brownish or greyish Old World birds greater whitethroat, Sylvia communis, whitethroat - greyish-brown Old World warbler with a white throat and underparts lesser whitethroat, Sylvia curruca, whitethroat - Old World warbler similar to the greater whitethroat but smaller New World warbler, wood warbler - small bright-colored American songbird with a weak unmusical song

Translations

طَيْرٌ صَدّاح، مُغَرِّد

sangfugl

Grasmücke Singvogel

parisomerousserolle

söngvari

uccello canoro

sanger

çalı bülbülü

呜禽鸣鸟

warbler

[ˈwɔːbləʳ] N (= bird) → curruca f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

warbler

[ˈwɔː^rblə^r] n → pinson mwar chest n → trésor m de guerre (pour financer une campagne électorale, un projet)war correspondent n → correspondant(e) m/f de guerrewar crime n → crime m de guerrewar cry n → cri m de guerre

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

warbler

n (Orn) → Grasmücke f; (= wood warbler) → Waldsänger m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

warbler

[ˈwɔːbləʳ] n → uccello canoro
reed warbler → cannaiola comune
sedge warbler → forapaglie m inv comune
willow warbler → lui m inv grosso

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

warble

(ˈwoːbl) verb

to sing in a trembling voice, as some birds do. The bird was warbling (his song) on a high branch.

noun

an act, or the sound, of warbling. the warble of a bird in summer.

ˈwarbler noun

any of several kinds of small singing bird.

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the spell of dumbness is upon them all--there is not a single warbler in the valley!

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'I suppose,' muttered Gabriel, 'that's out of the 'Prentice's Garland or the 'Prentice's Delight, or the 'Prentice's Warbler, or the Prentice's Guide to the Gallows, or some such improving textbook.

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That's proper and appropriate, since he's a warbler."

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The song may be compared to that of the Sedge warbler, but is more powerful; some harsh notes and some very high ones, being mingled with a pleasant warbling.

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"I am no attic singer, no ballroom warbler. And why?

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And now you shall listen to the Winsome Waggish Warblers, who have often cheered me in my moments of anguish."

The Winsome Waggish Warblers proved to be a quartette of rabbit singers, two gentlemen and two lady rabbits.

"I don't like that song," he said to the Warblers. "Give us something jolly and rollicking."

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"Ay, ye can, blow" said Alan; and taking the instrument from his rival, he first played the same spring in a manner identical with Robin's; and then wandered into variations, which, as he went on, he decorated with a perfect flight of grace-notes, such as pipers love, and call the "warblers."

Stewart," said the rival, "but ye show a poor device in your warblers."

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'singing Temperance Songs.' I was prevented from getting there, in time to hear these Little Warblers, or to report upon this novel kind of vocal entertainment: novel, at least, to me: but I found in a large open space, each society gathered round its own banners, and listening in silent attention to its own orator.

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He shared his money with him: bought him uncountable presents of knives, pencil-cases, gold seals, toffee, Little Warblers, and romantic books, with large coloured pictures of knights and robbers, in many of which latter you might read inscriptions to George Sedley Osborne, Esquire, from his attached friend William Dobbin--the which tokens of homage George received very graciously, as became his superior merit.

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