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egret en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈɛɡɹɪt/ (General-American)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈiːɡɹɪt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /iˈɡɹɛt/ (General-American)
  • /ˈiˌɡɹɛt/ (General-American)
  • /ˈiɡɹɪt/ (General-American)

Etymology

From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman egret, aigrette (“egret”), from Old Occitan aigreta, diminutive of aigron (“heron”), from Medieval Latin hairo, from Frankish *haigro (“heron”). Cognate with Old High German heigaro (“heron”), Old English hrāgra (“heron”). Doublet of aigrette. More at heron.

Meanings

  1. Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea that includes herons, many of which are white or buff, and several of which develop fine plumes during the breeding season.
    • Egrets picked their way through the grass, attentive and showy as fussy girlfriends at the cows' sides. 2011, Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones, Bloomsbury (2017), page 64:
  2. A plume or tuft of feathers worn as a part of a headdress, or anything imitating such an ornament.
  3. The flying feathery or hairy crown of seeds or achenes, such as the down of the thistle.
  4. (obsolete) The crab-eating macaque (Macaca fascicularis)

Forms

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Deriveds

median egret · egretry · yellow-billed egret · common egret · great egret · cattle egret · snowy egret · egretlike · little egret · reddish egret · intermediate egret · great white egret · large egret · western cattle egret

Descendants

éigrit

Relateds

aigrette · heron

Synonyms

aigrette

Translations (53)

tr akbalıkçıl (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · ko 백로 (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · ga éigrit (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · ml കൊക്ക് (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · cs volavka (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · hi बगुला (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · ja シラサギ (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · ko 왜가리 (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · rhg 𐴁𐴡𐴒𐴝 (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · es garza (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · pt garça (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · eo egreto (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · el τσικνιάς (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · ka ოყარი (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · nan-hbl 白鷺 /白鹭 (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · arz أبو قردان (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · vi cò (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · bg бя́ла ча́пла (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · nan-hbl 白鷺鷥 /白鹭鸶 (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · cy adar y bwn (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · de Reiher (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · jv kuntul (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · ca martinet (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · wo xodd gi (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · pl czapla (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · ro stârc alb (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · it airone guardabuoi (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · cmn 白鷺 /白鹭 (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · ca agró (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · ar أَبُو قِرْدَان (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · fa قار (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · ml വെള്ളരിക്കൊക്ക് (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · ro egretă (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · es garceta (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · ms bangau (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · as বগলী (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · as বগ (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · ru бе́лая ца́пля (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · gl garza (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · it garzetta (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · gl garzota (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · ja 白鷺 (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · fi jalohaikara (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · ko 해오라기 (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · hu kócsag (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · el χουλιάρι (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · nv toohjįʼ ndiigaii (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · ru ца́пля (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · fr aigrette (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · srn sabaku (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · bn বক (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · nl reiger (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea) · cy crëyr (Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea)