canary
Meaning of canary
- a mainly African finch with a melodious song, typically having yellowish-green plumage. One kind is popular as a cage bird and has been bred in a variety of colours, especially bright yellow.
- a bright yellow colour resembling the plumage of a canary.
villas painted in canary yellow
a canary waistcoat
- a sweet wine from the Canary Islands, similar to Madeira.
late 16th century: from French canari, from Spanish canario ‘canary’ or ‘person from the Canary Islands’ (see Canary Islands).
Information about canary
- It is a name.
- The plural form of canary is: canaries.
- Languages in which canary is used:
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Hyphenation of canary
ca-nary
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- canary is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
canary synonyms
Meaning fink:
fink, snitch, snitcher, stoolpigeon, stoolie, sneak, sneaker
Translation of canary
Anagrams of canary
Words that rhyme with canary
Nary, nary, Canary, granary, panary, physicianary, McNary, Benary, Centenary, Trenary, avenary, bicentenary, bimillenary, catenary, centenary, concatenary, coparcenary, coparenary, cursenary, decenary, denary, duodenary, mercenary, millenary, nonagenary, nonmercenary, novenary, novocentenary, octenary, octingenary, octingentenary, octocentenary, octogenary, parcenary, plenary, prolegomenary, quadringenary, quatercentenary, quincentenary, quingentenary, quinquagenary, quinquecentenary, quinquenary, scenary, semicentenary, senary, septcentenary, septemdecenary, septenary, septuagenary