English Explanatory Dictionary

plover

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of various wading birds of the subfamily Charadriinae.
  2. A masked lapwing (Vanellus miles).
verb
  1. To dote over, or, crowd or nestle with
  2. To hunt for plover.
  3. To wade along the shore, examining the sand like a plover does.
name
  1. A minor city in Pocahontas County, Iowa, United States, named for the bird.
  2. A town in Marathon County, Wisconsin, United States.
  3. A town and village in Portage County, Wisconsin.

Pronunciation

/ˈplʌvɚ/ /ˈploʊvɚ/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-plover.wav /ˈplʌvə/

Word forms

plover plovers plovering plovered

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English plover, from Anglo-Norman plover, plovier, from Medieval Latin plovarius, pluviārius, of disputed origin; perhaps from Latin pluvia (“rain”).

Derived words

American golden plover Bartramina plover bastard plover beach plover black-bellied plover black-breasted plover blacksmith plover black-winged plover bull-head plover calico plover Caspian plover chestnut-banded plover collared plover crab plover crab-plover double-banded plover Egyptian plover Eurasian golden plover goggle-eyed plover golden plover grass plover gray plover grey plover green plover hill plover Kentish plover lark-plover little ringed plover Magellanic plover masked plover Norfolk plover piping plover plovercrest ploverlike ploverness plovery quail-plover ringed plover ring plover rock plover sand plover sea plover semipalmated plover shore plover snowy plover sociable plover spurwing plover spur-winged plover St Helena plover stone plover Swiss plover upland plover whistling plover white-crowned plover white-tailed plover Wilson's plover wry-billed plover yellow plover

Translations

Western Apache: tábąą dijágé Asturian: pollu Asturian: mazaricu Bulgarian: дъждосвирец Catalan: corriol Chinese Mandarin: 千鳥 /千鸟 Chinese Mandarin: 鴴 /鸻 Czech: kulík Dutch: plevier Esperanto: pluvio Faroese: lógv Finnish: kurmitsa French: pluvier Galician: píldora Galician: píllara German: Regenpfeifer Ancient Greek: χαραδριός Hebrew: חוֹפָמִי Icelandic: lóa Indonesian: cerek Irish: feadóg Italian: caradrio Japanese: 千鳥 Korean: 물떼새 Luxembourgish: Wakeleefer Middle English: plover Norman: êprivyi Norwegian Bokmål: lo Norwegian Nynorsk: lo Okinawan: 浜千鳥 Old Norse: ló Old Norse: lóa Polish: siewka Portuguese: tarambola Portuguese: borrelho Romanian: ploier Romanian: fluierar Russian: зуёк Russian: ржа́нка Scottish Gaelic: feadag Scottish Gaelic: trìlleachan Slovene: deževnik Spanish: chorlo Spanish: chorlito Spanish: chorlitejo Swahili: kiluwiluwi Telugu: ఉల్లంకి Turkish: yağmurcun Vietnamese: choi choi Volapük: garadriut
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