Synonyms for poultry

Most common

chicken · fowl

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Noun

Definitions

1. n. 1

   Domestic fowl (e.g. chickens, ducks, turkeys, geese) raised for food (meat, eggs, or both).

Related words

Word family

poultryhouse poultrywoman pout poulter poulterer

Phrases

poultry wire

Is a kind of

bird animal creature critter meat

Forms

Plural

poultries → fowls, chickens…

Example sentences

• chicken A nice roast chicken is one of my favorite dishes.
• fowl It's hard to say because it's neither fish nor fowl.

Popularity over time

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

By length

4 letters

fowl¹

7 letters

chicken²

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (chicken² = 2 syllables).