Meaning

1 senses
  1. A house, enclosure, large cage, or other place for keeping birds confined; a birdhouse.

    Voliere, Volière, Vogelhaus

    волье́рvolʹjér, пти́чникptíčnik

More definitions
  • a building where birds are kept

Examples

5 sentences
  1. Public aviaries are often found in parks and zoological gardens.

    deÖffentliche Volieren sind oft in Parks und zoologischen Gärten zu finden.

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  2. Sami visited the aviary.

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  3. Aviaries are sometimes called flight cages because the birds confined therein have room to fly around.

    deVolieren werden manchmal auch Flugkäfige genannt, weil die darin eingeschlossenen Vögel Platz zum Umherfliegen haben.

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  4. An aviary is a large enclosure for birds, often containing shrubbery and other plants to simulate their natural habitat.

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  5. The zoo's aviary was filled with colorful birds, Adriano noticed.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
confinement for keeping birds:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
confinement for keeping birds:

Origin

From Latin aviārium, from avis (“bird”).

From Latin aviārium, from avis (“bird”).

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Forms

plural: aviaries
Singularaviary
Pluralaviaries

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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