Definitions for stork

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Spelling: [stawrk]

IPA: /stɔrk/

Stork is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in stork (korst).

Definitions for stork

noun

1. any of several wading birds of the family Ciconiidae, having long legs and a long neck and bill. Compare adjutant stork, jabiru, marabou (def 1), white stork, wood ibis.
2. the stork, this bird as the mythical or symbolic deliverer of a new baby:

Origin of stork

before 900; Middle English; Old English storc; cognate with German Storch, Old Norse storkr; akin to stark

Examples for stork

So different were they that Lucy Fisher, another friend, used to tease that "Doug had been brought by the stork."

Then Jove sent a stork, and said he thought this would suit them.

So they looked about and found a duck, and introduced it to the stork.

He looks like a stork that dropped a baby and broke it and is coming to explain to the parents.

The duck was a drake, but the stork didn't mind, and they loved each other and were as jolly as could be.

The stork had but just come to the Frogs than he set to work to eat them up as fast as he could.

I always believed someone was going to leave a baby on my doorstep—like the stork.

"A stork, he thinks," she said, as though that were answer enough.

The stork is a bird of prey; it is vigilant, greedy, and catches gudgeons.

We just sing beautiful music, hold hands and voilà, a stork brings the baby from heaven.