REDBREAST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does redbreast mean? 

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

1. small Old World songbird with a reddish breast

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• REDBREAST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small Old World songbird with a reddish breast

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Erithacus rubecola; Old World robin; redbreast; robin; robin redbreast

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

thrush (songbirds characteristically having brownish upper plumage with a spotted breast)

Holonyms ("redbreast" is a member of...):

Erithacus; genus Erithacus (Old World thrushes)

 Context examples 

“That little man of a doctor, with his head on one side,” said my aunt, “Jellips, or whatever his name was, what was he about? All he could do, was to say to me, like a robin redbreast—as he is—“It's a boy.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)