Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: heron
IPA transcription: [h'ɛɹən]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: heron
    Meaning: grey or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long bill
  • Synonyms: Hero, Heron, Hero_of_Alexandria
    Meaning: Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)
Usage examples
  • For the third time she was as it were in the heron's throat!
  • The gulls once gone, the heron applies itself with redoubled zeal to its business.
  • The heron, coming up behind her, cautiously bends its neck over the drifting piece of reed.
  • As he rode off he called my attention to a great blue heron just then flying over the swamp.
  • It reminds the fisherman of a heron he once shot at, and which sent out a shower of such half-dead little fish.
  • ----Meanwhile, the keen-eyed heron, wading up to its breast in the water, comes softly and silently trawling through the ditch.
  • Just as the heron has brought its beak close to the surface of the water, ready to seize its prey, the gulls dash upon it from behind.
  • A heron had seen it lying in a pond, but a wild duck in some reeds had seen it last as she came home across the hills, and then it was rolling very far away.
  • Even the sharp-eyed heron, which had dropped down unnoticed about a dozen yards off, and was now noiselessly, with slow, cautious steps, wading nearer and nearer, took her at the first glance for a stick.
  • True enough, about the edges of the water were two or three solitary sandpipers, and at least half a dozen of the smaller yellowlegs,--two additions to my Florida list,--not to speak of a little blue heron and a green heron, the latter in most uncommonly green plumage.