Definitions for Sparrow

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Sparrow spar·row

Spelling: [spar-oh]

IPA: /ˈspær oʊ/

Sparrow is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 128 anagrams from letters in Sparrow (aoprrsw).

Definitions for Sparrow

noun

1. any of numerous American finches of the family Emberizinae. Compare chipping sparrow, song sparrow.
2. any member of the Old World genus Passer, formerly thought to be closely related to the weaverbirds but now placed in their own family, Passeridae.
3. British. the house sparrow.
4. any of several other unrelated small birds. Compare Java sparrow, hedge sparrow.
5. (initial capital letter) Military. a 12-foot (4-meter), all-weather, radar-guided U.S. air-to-air missile with an 88-pound (40-kg) high-explosive warhead.

Origin of Sparrow

before 900; Middle English sparowe, Old English spearwa; cognate with Gothic sparwa, Old Norse spǫrr

Examples for Sparrow

It is exceedingly difficult to catch a sparrow in one's hand.

Surely that sparrow fell not to the ground without the Father's knowledge.

sparrow could have all the money he needed upon the following condition.

“No eyes are on the sparrow, eyes are on the sparrow / He is singing anyway.”

The sparrow can live where the rest of the birds have no possible chance.

But the English sparrow is more adaptable than are the people.

A man “in traditional Alpine costume” addresses a group of children while holding a sparrow.

Before she finished I began to paint, and she resumed the pose, smiling and chattering like a sparrow.

He was not quarrelsome, though, like the sparrow; but peaceful, like the dove.

I can hear her now warbling her own rendition of "His Eye Is on the sparrow."