AVIARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aviary mean? 

• AVIARY (noun)
  The noun AVIARY has 1 sense:

1. a building where birds are kept

  Familiarity information: AVIARY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AVIARY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A building where birds are kept

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

aviary; bird sanctuary; volary

Hypernyms ("aviary" is a kind of...):

building; edifice (a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place)

 Context examples 

I was engaged to him, Mr. Holmes, when I heard a shocking story of how he had turned a cat loose in an aviary, and I was so horrified at his brutal cruelty that I would have nothing more to do with him.’

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Blinking over a little desk like a pulpit-desk, in the curve of the horse-shoe, was an old gentleman, whom, if I had seen him in an aviary, I should certainly have taken for an owl, but who, I learned, was the presiding judge.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)