Usually means: Small, social bird, iridescent plumage.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. starling: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. starling: Merriam-Webster
  3. starling, starling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. starling, starling: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. starling: Collins English Dictionary
  6. starling: Vocabulary.com
  7. Starling, starling: Wordnik
  8. starling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Starling, starling: Wiktionary
  10. starling: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. starling: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. starling: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. starling: Dictionary.com
  14. starling: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. starling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Starling (architecture), Starling (comics), Starling (dinghy), Starling (disambiguation), Starling (name), Starling (software), Starling (structure), Starling (surname), Starling, The Starling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Starling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. starling: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. starling: Rhymezone
  20. Starling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. starling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. starling: FreeDictionary.org
  23. starling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. starling: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. starling: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Starling: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. Starling: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
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Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. starling: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. starling: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A family, Sturnidae, of passerine birds.
noun:  The common starling, Sturnus vulgaris, which has dark, iridescent plumage.
noun:  (hydraulic engineering) An enclosure like a coffer-dam, formed of piles driven closely together, before any work or structure as a protection against the wash of the waves, commonly used to protects the piers of a bridge.
noun:  One of the piles used in forming such a breakwater.
noun:  A fish, rock trout (Hexagrammos spp.), of the North Pacific, especially, Hexagrammos decagrammus, found in US waters.
noun:  An English surname transferred from the nickname from a nickname for a gregarious person.
noun:  A male given name transferred from the surname.

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