English Explanatory Dictionary

stork

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the order Ciconiiformes and its family Ciconiidae.
  2. The mythical bringer of babies to families, or good news.
  3. The seventeenth Lenormand card.
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

stôrk /stɔɹk/ /stɔːk/ /stoːk/ en-us-stork.ogg

Word forms

stork storks

Etymology

From Middle English stork, from Old English storc, from Proto-West Germanic *stork, from Proto-Germanic *sturkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sr̥ǵos (“stork”). Near cognates include Dutch stork, German Storch, Swedish stork, and Icelandic storkur. Compare also Latvian stārķis (“stork”), borrowed from Germanic.

Related words

crane egret heron

Derived words

adjutant stork black-necked stork black stork giant stork hair-crested stork maguari stork marabou stork milky stork Oriental stork saddle-billed stork stork-billed stork bite storkish storklike storkling storksbill storkwise storky white stork wood stork
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