- Also called: robin redbreast
a small Old World songbird, Erithacus rubecula, related to the thrushes: family Muscicapidae. It has a brown back, orange-red breast and face, and grey underparts a North American thrush, Turdus migratorius, similar to but larger than the Old World robin
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rob•in /ˈrɑbɪn/USA pronunciation
n. [countable]
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025- Birdsa large North American bird, a thrush, having a chestnut-red breast and abdomen.
rob•in
(rob′in),USA pronunciation n.
Rob•in (rob′in),USA pronunciation n.
- Birdsany of several small Old World birds having a red or reddish breast, esp. Erithacus rubecula, of Europe.
- Birdsa large American thrush, Turdus migratorius, having a chestnut-red breast and abdomen.
- Birdsany of several similar thrushes of the New World tropics, not necessarily having reddish underparts, as T. grayi (clay-colored robin,) of Mexico and Central America. Also called robin redbreast (for defs. 1, 2).
- short for robin redbreast 1540–50
Rob•in (rob′in),USA pronunciation n.
- a male or female given name: derived from Robert.
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'robin' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Allan-a-Dale
- Cook
- Costner
- Day
- Friar Tuck
- Hood
- Knox-Johnston
- Little John
- Maid Marian
- Marshall
- Nottingham
- Poor Robin's plantain
- Robin Goodfellow
- Robin Hood
- Robin's plantain
- Sherwood Forest
- Warren
- Williams
- arum
- arum family
- clay-colored robin
- cuckooflower
- dobbin
- flying gurnard
- flying robin
- greenwood
- ground robin
- hob
- hobby
- hood
- lychnis
- morris dance
- prairie wake-robin
- precursor
- puck
- ragged robin
- red
- redbreast
- robin redbreast
- robin's-egg blue
- round robin
- sea robin
- varied thrush
- wake-robin