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Definition: BIRDMAN |
BIRDMANNoun1. A fowler or birdcatcher. |
Note: Birdman \Bird"man\, noun. An aviator; airman. [Colloquial]. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Mariner | Aerial navigator, aeronaut, balloonist, Icarus; aeroplanist, airman, aviator, birdman, man-bird, wizard of the air, aviatrix, flier, pilot, test pilot, glider pilot, bush pilot, navigator, flight attendant, steward, stewardess, crew; astronaut, cosmonaut; parachutist, paratrooper. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Birdman and the Galaxy Trio (1967) Attorney at Law Harvey Birdman (2001) The Balgonie Birdman (1991) Birdman (1978) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "BIRDMAN" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "BIRDMAN" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 66.67% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (proper) | 33.33% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 12 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "BIRDMAN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Japanese Kanji | 鳥人 (aviator, flying ace). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ちょうじ" (aviator, decay, decline, flying ace, superman, withering). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | irdmanbay.(various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ptičar (springer). (various references) | |
Turkish | pilot (aircraftman, aviator, flier, flyer, pilot), kuşçu, avcı (chaser, Fowler, gun, Hunter, hunting, huntress, huntsman, shikari, shooter, skirmisher, trapper). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người lái máy bay (airman, aviator). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"BIRDMAN" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: badman, bartjan, Berdan, Berkman, Berreman, Berriman, Birama, birman, birmday, birmin, birtian, Borsman, bridan, Brodman, burdwan. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BIRDMAN" (pronounced ber"dman) |
| 3 | -m a n | iceman, Superman, tribesman, woodsman. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-i-m-n-r" | |
-1 letter: riband. | |
-2 letters: bairn, braid, brain, brand, dinar, drain, inarm, mbira, nadir, rabid, ranid. | |
-3 letters: abri, airn, amid, amin, amir, arid, band, bani, bard, barm, barn, bima, bind, bird, brad, bran, brim, brin, damn, darb, darn, drab, dram, drib, iamb, maid, main, mair, mina, mind, nard, raid, rain, rami, rand, rani, rind. | |
-4 letters: aid, aim. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-i-m-n-r" | |
+1 letter: midbrain, misbrand. | |
+2 letters: midbrains, misbrands. | |
+3 letters: abridgment, barramundi, bombarding, brominated, disbarment, mandibular, misbranded, submarined, timberland. | |
+4 letters: abridgement, abridgments, adumbrating, adumbration, barramundis, disbarments, drumbeating, lamebrained, misbranding, timberlands. | |
+5 letters: abridgements, adumbrations, barramundies, brainstormed, dermabrasion, descrambling, determinable, determinably, disembarking, drumbeatings, imponderable, imponderably. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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