Bunting Definition

bŭntĭng
buntings
noun
A thin cloth used in making flags, streamers, etc.
Webster's New World

Flags considered as a group.

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Flags, or strips of cloth in the colors of the flag, used as holiday decorations.
Webster's New World
A baby's garment of soft, warm cloth made into a hooded blanket that exposes only the face.
Webster's New World
Any of a family (Emberizidae, esp. genera Passerina and Emberiza) of small, brightly colored passerine birds with short, stout bills.
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verb

Present participle of bunt.

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pronoun

A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist R.H. Bunting (fl. 1923).

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Other Word Forms of Bunting

Noun

Singular:
bunting
Plural:
buntings

Origin of Bunting

  • Possibly from dialect bunting (“sifting flour”), from Middle English bonten (“to sift”), hence the material used for that purpose.

    From Wiktionary

  • Perhaps from Scots buntin plump, short

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Perhaps from German bunt colored

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • See bunt

    From Wiktionary

Bunting Sentence Examples

  • Canvas or bunting screens are most effectual.

  • When the bunting at the end of the stray line passes his hand, he calls to his assistant to turn the glass, and allows the line to pay out freely.

  • The hermit thrush, veery, song sparrow, red-eyed vireo, bunting, warbler and wren are among the song birds of the forests.

  • It is the home of the southern fox-squirrel, Cotton rat, ricefield rat, wood rat, free-tailed bat, mocking bird, painted bunting, prothonotary warbler, red-cockaded woodpecker, chuckwills-widow, and the swallow-tailed and Mississippi kites.

  • The point where it joins the other part is marked by a piece of bunting, and the line from this point towards its other end is marked at known intervals with "knots," which consist of pieces of cord worked in between its strands.

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Words Starting With

BBUBUN

Words Ending With

GNGING

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7 Letter Words7 Letter Words Starting With B7 Letter Words Ending With G