finchnoun [ C ]
uk/fɪntʃ/us/fɪntʃ/any of various types of small singing bird with a short, wide, pointed beak
See also
bullfinch
chaffinch
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Other wild birds
- bird of paradise
- blackbird
- blue tit
- bluebird
- bluejay
- house martin
- house sparrow
- hummingbird
- Indian mynah
- jackass
- mockingbird
- mynah
- nightingale
- oriole
- ostrich
- starling
- swift
- toucan
- turtle dove
- warbler
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Examples from literature
- As for the finches and sparrows their number was past calculation.
- At the end of that time, however, I observed one morning a pair of finches, after a heavy storm, drying their poor battered wings upon a shrub in one of the islands.
- The animals here consist chiefly of monkeys, parrots and finches, but many ducks fly from a swamp near the water.
- The finch calls its mate by uttering a few notes followed by a long trill.
- The song-talk of the finches rises and sinks like the tinkle of a waterfall.