DODO (dodoes)

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Irregular inflected form: dodoes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does dodo mean? 

• DODO (noun)
  The noun DODO has 2 senses:

1. someone whose style is out of fashion

2. extinct heavy flightless bird of Mauritius related to pigeons

  Familiarity information: DODO used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DODO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone whose style is out of fashion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

dodo; fogey; fogy; fossil

Hypernyms ("dodo" is a kind of...):

golden ager; old person; oldster; senior citizen (an elderly person)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Extinct heavy flightless bird of Mauritius related to pigeons

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

dodo; Raphus cucullatus

Hypernyms ("dodo" is a kind of...):

columbiform bird (a cosmopolitan order of land birds having small heads and short legs with four unwebbed toes)

Holonyms ("dodo" is a member of...):

genus Raphus; Raphus (type genus of the Raphidae: dodos)