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stork

noun
/stɔɹk/US/stɔːk/UK/stoːk/

Etymology

From Middle English stork, from Old English storc, from Proto-West Germanic *stork, from Proto-Germanic *sturkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sr̥ǵos (“stork”). Near cognates include Dutch stork, German Storch, Swedish stork, and Icelandic storkur. Compare also Latvian stārķis (“stork”), borrowed from Germanic.

  1. inherited from *sr̥ǵos✻
  2. inherited from *sturkaz✻
  3. inherited from *stork✻
  4. inherited from storc
  5. inherited from stork

Definitions

  1. A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the order Ciconiiformes and its…

    A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the order Ciconiiformes and its family Ciconiidae.

  2. The mythical bringer of babies to families, or good news.

    • My sister's expecting a visit from the stork.

  3. The seventeenth Lenormand card.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A surname.

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Derived

adjutant stork, black-necked stork, black stork, giant stork, hair-crested stork, maguari stork, marabou stork, milky stork, Oriental stork, saddle-billed stork, stork-billed, stork bite, storkish, storklike, storkling, storksbill, storkwise, storky, white stork, wood stork

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA