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DODO (dodoes)
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Dictionary entry overview: What does dodo mean?
• DODO (noun)
The noun DODO has 2 senses:
1. someone whose style is out of fashion
2. extinct heavy flightless bird of Mauritius related to pigeons
Familiarity information: DODO used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone whose style is out of fashion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("dodo" is a kind of...):
golden ager; old person; oldster; senior citizen (an elderly person)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Extinct heavy flightless bird of Mauritius related to pigeons
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
dodo; Raphus cucullatus
Hypernyms ("dodo" is a kind of...):
columbiform bird (a cosmopolitan order of land birds having small heads and short legs with four unwebbed toes)
Holonyms ("dodo" is a member of...):
genus Raphus; Raphus (type genus of the Raphidae: dodos)
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