Meaning

2 senses
  1. (uncountable, usually)Domestic fowl (e.g. chickens, ducks, turkeys, geese) raised for food (meat, eggs, or both).

    a poultry farmer

    Geflügel

    дома́шняя пти́цаdomášnjaja ptíca

    сві́йський птахsvíjsʹkyj ptax, сві́йська пти́цяsvíjsʹka ptýcja

    flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food

  2. (uncountable, usually)The meat from a domestic fowl.

    the poultry counter

    Geflügel

    мя́со пти́цыmjáso ptícy

Examples

18 sentences
  1. I don't eat poultry.

    ruЯ не ем птицу.

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  2. He keeps a small poultry yard.

    ruОн содержит небольшой птичий двор.

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  3. At home, we don't eat poultry.

    deZu Hause aßen wir kein Geflügel.

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  4. I fed the pigs and poultry.

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  5. Many people raise poultry in their backyards.

    deViele Leute züchten in ihren Hinterhöfen Geflügel.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
domestic fowl:
Русский
By meaning 2
domestic fowl:
fowl meat:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
domestic fowl:

Origin

From Middle English pultrie, from Old French pouleterie, from poulet, diminutive of poule

From Middle English pultrie, from Old French pouleterie, from poulet, diminutive of poule (“hen”), from Latin pullus (“chick”). By surface analysis, poult + -ry.

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Forms

plural: poultries
Singularpoultry

uncountable

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl:domestic fowlfowl

Word family

14 related words

See also

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