bird feeder

noun

A device placed outdoors to supply food to birds.

Meanings

nounbird feeder (plural bird feeders)

plural bird feeders · alternative bird-feeder · alternative birdfeeder

  1. A device placed outdoors to supply food to birds.
    1 more example

    Although artist-designed urns and other objects are still a tiny fraction of the $11 billion death-care industry, as it is known, the gallery’s opening — along with novelty items like wind chimes with built-in cavities, pencils made from cremated remains (roughly 250 pencils per person), diamonds made from ash carbon and birdfeeders designed to scatter ashes — reflect the shifting demographics of death and disposition.

    2007 January 18, Patricia Leigh Brown, “In Death as in Life, a Personalized Space”, in New York Times

Synonyms & antonyms

nounan outdoor device that supplies food for wild birds

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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

Translations

Finnish lintulauta
  • lintulautaa device placed outdoors to supply food to birds
French mangeoire à oiseaux
  • mangeoire à oiseauxa device placed outdoors to supply food to birds
Hungarian madáretető
  • madáretetőa device placed outdoors to supply food to birds
Polish karmnik
  • karmnika device placed outdoors to supply food to birds
Spanish comedero para pájaros
  • comedero para pájarosa device placed outdoors to supply food to birds
Swedish fågelbord, fågelmatare
  • fågelborda device placed outdoors to supply food to birds
  • fågelmatarea device placed outdoors to supply food to birds
Turkish kuş besleyici
  • kuş besleyicia device placed outdoors to supply food to birds
Cite this entry
APA

bird feeder. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bird%20feeder

MLA

“bird feeder.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bird%20feeder. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bird feeder,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bird%20feeder.

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