Definitions for Starling

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Starling star·ling

Spelling: [stahr-ling]

IPA: /ˈstɑr lɪŋ/

Starling is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 439 anagrams from letters in Starling (agilnrst).

Definitions for Starling

noun

1. a chunky, medium-sized European passerine bird, Sturnus vulgaris, of iridescent black plumage with seasonal speckles, that nests in colonies: introduced into North America.
2. any of various similar Old World birds of the family Sturnidae.
3. a pointed cluster of pilings for protecting a bridge pier from drifting ice, debris, etc.

Origin of Starling

before 1050; Middle English; Old English stærling, equivalent to stær starling (cognate with Old High German stara, Old Norse stari) + -ling -ling¹; akin t

Examples for Starling

He says you are teaching him to speak just as if he were a starling, and we are very much obliged to you.

But the starling has a sharp bill, and he hits the poor sparrow with it.

Next year that lodging was taken by a starling, who reared a brood there.

He dived down into the great chest, and brought out the starling.

“Ha-ha-ha; phut-phut-phut—wizzle-wizzle,” said the starling off the top of the wall.

Now people from all corners of the sports world are calling for starling to lose his team ownership.

I love my hut, and the starling, and the chickens—and what would the garden do without me?

A starling's range of ideas may be summed up in the word "Grubs."

Mrs. Sparrow's brother-in-law paid his respects to Mrs. starling.

And as Fritz sobbed louder, so were the starling's cries of "Potztausend!"