feathers

Meaning of feathers

plural noun
  1. any of the flat appendages growing from a bird's skin and forming its plumage, consisting of a partly hollow horny shaft fringed with vanes of barbs.
    the waxwing has very bright feathers and a prominent crest
    Sally-Anne, dolled up in ostrich feathers and pearls
verb, 3rd person present
  1. rotate the blades of (a propeller) about their own axes in such a way as to lessen the air or water resistance.
  2. float or move like a feather.
    the green fronds feathered against a blue sky
  3. blend or smooth delicately.
    feather the paint in, in a series of light strokes
  4. (of ink, lipstick, etc.) separate into tiny lines after application.
    the ink started to feather and smudge
    don't you just hate it when you spot that your lipstick has feathered around your lips?
  5. short for feather cut.

Old English fether, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch veer and German Feder, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit patra ‘wing’, Latin penna ‘feather’, and Greek pteron, pterux ‘wing’.

Information about feathers

  • The singular form of feathers is: feather.
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Hyphenation of feathers

feath-ers

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • feathers is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

feathers synonyms

Meaning a long, soft feather or arrangement of feathers used by a bird for display or worn by a person for ornament:

plume

Meaning any of the main wing or tail feathers of a bird:

quill

Meaning a bird's feathers collectively:

plumage

Meaning the plumage of a bird or part of a bird:

feathering

Meaning a period of unwelcome experiences or negative mood:

down

Meaning erectile hairs along an animal's back, which rise when it is angry or alarmed:

hackles

Meaning a comb or tuft of feathers, fur, or skin on the head of a bird or other animal:

crest

Meaning a bunch or collection of threads, grass, hair, etc., held or growing together at the base:

tuft

Meaning a knot of hair arranged on the top of the head:

topknot

Meaning the outer part of a bird's wing including the flight feathers:

pinion

Meaning a thicket in which game can hide:

covert

Meaning singular form of remiges:

remex

Meaning the larger feathers in a bird's tail, used for steering in flight:

rectrix

Meaning the rudimentary shoot or stem of an embryo plant:

plumule

Meaning long stiff hairs growing around the mouth or elsewhere on the face of many mammals, used as organs of touch; whiskers:

vibrissae

Meaning a piece of cloth or similar material, typically oblong or square, attachable by one edge to a pole or rope and used as the symbol or emblem of a country or institution or as a decoration during public:

flag

Translation of feathers

Anagrams of feathers

tashreef

Words that rhyme with feathers

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