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Synonyms for fowl

Most common

chicken poultry wildfowl

All synonyms

Noun

1. Poultry

bird, birdy CA, poultry, chicken

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    A bird hunted or kept for food, grouped into landfowl (order Galliformes), also called gamefowl, and waterfowl (order Anseriformes: ducks, geese, swans, etc.), which together form the clade Galloanserae.

Related words

Word family
fowl-lore
Phrases
mallee fowl scrub fowl guinea fowl
Is a kind of
vertebrate animal bird

Forms

Plural
fowls → birds, poultries, chickens, wildfowls…

Example sentences

  • chicken A nice roast chicken is one of my favorite dishes.
  • poultry I do not eat meat, fish, shellfish, poultry or broth.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
fowlfalling
chickenrising
poultryfalling
wildfowlfalling

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
bird1
5 letters
birdy2
7 letters
chicken2, poultry2
8 letters
wildfowl

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (birdy2 = 2 syllables).

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