Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: grizzly
IPA transcription: [ɡɹ'ɪzli]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: grey, gray, grey-haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired
    Meaning: showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head"
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: grizzly, grizzly_bear, silvertip, silver-tip, Ursus_horribilis, Ursus_arctos_horribilis
    Meaning: powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America
Usage examples
  • I once had a grizzly bear for a pet, and so far as he and I were concerned, our relations were charming and very close.
  • Montana's bag-limits are not wholly bad; but the grizzly bear has almost been exterminated, save in the Yellowstone Park.
  • The Shuswap Indians, like the Thompson Indians, associate twins with the grizzly bear, for they call them "young grizzly bears." According to them, twins remain throughout life endowed with supernatural powers.
  • It is exceedingly interesting and attractive to be a successful business man, or railroad man, or farmer, or a successful lawyer or doctor; or a writer, or a President, or a ranchman, or the colonel of a fighting regiment, or to kill grizzly bears and lions.
  • The ant-eater looked superb, with his long tail and grizzly hair; with his pointed snout, which is plunged into the ant-hills whose insects form its principal food; and his long, thin paws, armed with sharp nails, five inches long, and which can shut up like the fingers of one's hand.