Meanings
plural bird feeders · alternative bird-feeder · alternative birdfeeder
- 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
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
bird feeder. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bird%20feeder
“bird feeder.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bird%20feeder. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bird feeder,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bird%20feeder.
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