OLD WORLD CHAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Old World chat mean? 

• OLD WORLD CHAT (noun)
  The noun OLD WORLD CHAT has 1 sense:

1. songbirds having a chattering call

  Familiarity information: OLD WORLD CHAT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OLD WORLD CHAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Songbirds having a chattering call

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

chat; Old World chat

Hypernyms ("Old World chat" is a kind of...):

thrush (songbirds characteristically having brownish upper plumage with a spotted breast)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Old World chat"):

Saxicola torquata; stonechat (common European chat with black plumage and a reddish-brown breast)

Saxicola rubetra; whinchat (brown-and-buff European songbird of grassy meadows)

Holonyms ("Old World chat" is a member of...):

genus Saxicola; Saxicola (Old World chats)