Usually means: Small bird, often hunted, game.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. partridge: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. partridge: Merriam-Webster
  3. partridge: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. partridge: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. partridge: Collins English Dictionary
  6. partridge: Vocabulary.com
  7. Partridge, partridge: Wordnik
  8. partridge: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Partridge, partridge: Wiktionary
  10. partridge: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. partridge: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. partridge: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Partridge, partridge: Dictionary.com
  14. partridge: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Partridge (disambiguation), Partridge (surname), Partridge: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Partridge: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. partridge: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. partridge: Rhymezone
  19. Partridge: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. partridge: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Partridge: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. partridge: FreeDictionary.org
  23. partridge: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. partridge: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. partridge: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. partridge: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Partridge: Easton Bible
  2. Partridge: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. partridge: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. partridge: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  (ornithology) Any bird of a number of genera in the family Phasianidae, notably in the genera Perdix and Alectoris.
▸ noun:  (obsolete, military) A type of cannon charge composed of several missiles fired all together, similar to langrage or case-shot. Also a large cannon that shoots stones.
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  A minor city in Reno County, Kansas, United States, named after the bird.

Similar:
ruffed grouse, bobwhite, tinamou, bobwhite quail, bonasa umbellus, Patridge, grey partridge, pheasant, see-see partridge, rock partridge, more...

Opposite:
prey, herbivore, carnivore, bird of prey.

Types:
chukar, ruffed grouse, ptarmigan, willow ptarmigan, ring-necked p, more...

Phrases:
eric partridge, grey partridge, john partridge, Hungarian partridge, edward partridge, more...

Adjectives:
legged, hungarian, black, grey, common, young, little, poor, gray, red, old

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Similar:
ruffed grouse, bobwhite, tinamou, bobwhite quail, bonasa umbellus, Patridge, grey partridge, pheasant, see-see partridge, rock partridge, more...

Opposite:
prey, herbivore, carnivore, bird of prey.

Types:
chukar, ruffed grouse, ptarmigan, willow ptarmigan, ring-necked p, more...

Phrases:
eric partridge, grey partridge, john partridge, Hungarian partridge, edward partridge, gray partridge, chukar partridge, black partridge, partridge berry, partridge pea, rock partridge, roi partridge, more...

Adjectives:
legged, hungarian, black, grey, common, young, little, poor, gray, red, old

Colors:
    olive,     taupe,     chestnut,     sage,     sepia, more...



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