Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: thrush
IPA transcription: [θɹ'ʌʃ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: thrush
    Meaning: songbirds characteristically having brownish upper plumage with a spotted breast
  • Synonyms: thrush
    Meaning: a woman who sings popular songs
  • Synonyms: thrush
    Meaning: candidiasis of the oral cavity; seen mostly in infants or debilitated adults
Usage examples
  • The performance of a brown thrush drove him wild with envy.
  • Well, then, I should say you were sickening for something--mumps or measles or thrush or teething.
  • With care and deliberation the brown thrush selected the most attractive, and she followed him to the thicket as if charmed.
  • The thrush came gliding up the river bank, a rusty-coated, sneaking thing of the underbrush, and taking possession of a thorn bush just opposite the sumac, he sang for an hour in the open.
  • 'Hither, hither, through the sky, Turtle-doves and linnets, fly! Blackbird, thrush, and chaffinch gay, Hither, hither, haste away! One and all come help me, quick! Haste ye, haste ye!--pick, pick, pick!'
  • 'Hither, hither, through the sky, Turtle-doves and linnets, fly! Blackbird, thrush, and chaffinch gay, Hither, hither, haste away! One and all come help me, quick! Haste ye, haste ye!--pick, pick, pick!'
  • He delayed burning the brush-heap from the spring pruning, back of the orchard, until fall, when he found it housed a pair of fine thrushes; for the song of the thrush delighted him almost as much as that of the lark.
  • One bird, a thrush, embroidered the silence with cheery notes, making the solitude familiar and sweet, while the solemn monotone of the stream sifting through the woods seemed like the very voice of God, humanized, terrestrialized, and entering one's heart as to a home prepared for it.